Um grande discurso de um grande líder.
Posso discordar de algumas soluções e de parte do fundamento ideológico. Mas acho notável como, pragmaticamente, mas sem descurar motivações ideológicas, consegue enquadrar os desafios, delinear objectivos, motivar e tudo fazer para os alcançar. Num tempo de líderes amorfos e cagarolas, dá gosto ler coisas como estas:
###Posso discordar de algumas soluções e de parte do fundamento ideológico. Mas acho notável como, pragmaticamente, mas sem descurar motivações ideológicas, consegue enquadrar os desafios, delinear objectivos, motivar e tudo fazer para os alcançar. Num tempo de líderes amorfos e cagarolas, dá gosto ler coisas como estas:
«The scale of the challenges now dwarf what we faced in 1997. They are different, deeper, bigger, hammered out on the anvil of forces, global in nature, sweeping the world.
In 1997 the challenges we faced were essentially British. Today they are essentially global.
The world today is a vast reservoir of potential opportunity. New jobs in environmental technology, the creative industries, financial services. Cheap goods and travel. The internet. Advances in science and technology.
In 10 years we will think nothing of school-leavers going off to university anywhere in the world.
But with these opportunities comes huge insecurity.
In 1997 we barely mentioned China. Not any more. Last year China and India produced more graduates than all of Europe put together.
10 years ago, energy wasn't on the agenda. The environment an also-ran.
10 years ago, if we talked pensions we meant pensioners.
Immigration hardly raised.
Terrorism meant the IRA.
Not any more.»
Ou esta:
«And of course, the new anxiety is the global struggle against terrorism without mercy or limit.
This is a struggle that will last a generation and more. But this I believe passionately: we will not win until we shake ourselves free of the wretched capitulation to the propaganda of the enemy, that somehow we are the ones responsible.
This terrorism isn't our fault. We didn't cause it.
It's not the consequence of foreign policy.
It's an attack on our way of life.
It's global.
It has an ideology.
It killed nearly 3,000 people including over 60 British on the streets of New York before war in Afghanistan or Iraq was even thought of.
It has been decades growing.
Its victims are in Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Turkey.
Over 30 nations in the world.
It preys on every conflict.
It exploits every grievance.
And its victims are mainly Muslim.
This is not our war against Islam.
This is a war fought by extremists who pervert the true faith of Islam. And all of us, Western and Arab, Christian or Muslim, who put the value of tolerance, respect and peaceful co-existence above those of sectarian hatred, should join together to defeat them.
We used to feel we could shut our front door on the problems and conflicts of the wider world. Not any more.
Not with globalisation. Not with climate change. Not with organised crime. Not when suicide bombers born and bred in Britain bring carnage to the streets of London . In the name of religion.
A speech by the Pope to an academic seminar in Bavaria leads to protests in Britain.
The question today is different to the one we faced in 1997.
It is how we reconcile openness to the rich possibilities of globalisation, with security in the face of its threats.
How to be open and secure.»
