Savoir-Faire

Gary Bretcher, autor da coluna War Nerd publicada no periódico underground eXile, tem opiniões controversas e bastante politicamente incorretas. No entanto sua maneira crua e desengajada de escrever sobre guerras, o que não impede grandes doses de humor negro, acaba trazendo uma boa gama de informações relevantes, algumas vezes pontuadas por um discreto nacionalismo ianque.O que me chamou atenção para sua coluna foi o artigo a respeito do conflito Israel-Líbano, na qual ele apresenta conclusões bastante lúcida a respeito dessa ofensiva e suas consequências. Segue um trecho:

The way Israel is conducting the war right now is the worst of both worlds: it’s too bloody and not bloody enough at the same time. Give me a second to explain what I mean by that. At the moment that skinny nasal-voiced jerk Anderson Cooper is saying Israel’s killed about 320 Lebanese, vs. 36 Israelis dead. Now actually that’s a perfectly standard count for asymmetrical warfare; the technologically superior force usually kills about ten of the guerrillas for every one of its own losses. But in PR terms, this war has been a disaster for Israel, a can’t win scenario. Just try this experiment: watch CNN with the sound off for a few minutes. Without that non-stop pro-Israel commentary, you’ll see what the whole world outside the US sees: non-stop video feed of terrified Lebanese civvies fleeing in terror, crying on camera, hugging their bloodied-up kids. Then there’s a shot of the IDF zooming around in their Merkavas and US-supplied SP 155mms, blasting dry hills or doing dirt donuts on some local’s wrecked house. Confira o artigo na íntegra.