米国のマスコミ人たちの気持ちを知るには、PBSニュースの金曜日に行われる大手新聞社、コラムニストDavid Brooks氏 (New York Times ) と Jonathan Capehart氏 (Washington Post)と、アンカーの Judy Woodruff さんの対談が便利です。
I interviewed Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, this week, who said Biden is not doing enough, he's doing it too late.
David Brooks氏は以下のように言っています。 underlying unityがあると言っています。 「批判があるということが、物事を熟慮し、前進を可能にしうるものでもある」とも言いたいようです。
But I'm glad the criticism is over the pace of what we're doing and not over whether we should be doing it. And so, to me, that — there's an underlying unity, and in American public opinion. Very few Americans want troops on the ground. Some do, but we want to increase the pressure.
And so, if there's going to be criticism, maybe for more. I think Biden is moving in the more direction. And if we're going to have an argument over how fast we move in the more direction, that, to me, is a pretty useful argument to have. And so I don't think the criticism is a major problem for what we're doing.
Jonathan Capehart氏は、バイデン氏の全面的支持者のようですが、以下のように言っています。
And that is exactly what he should be doing.
But I just want to push back a little bit on this. You said underlying unity. Sure, there's some underlying unity. But I — it's a little aggravating that certain Republicans, particularly in the Senate, especially if they're thinking of running for president, are — they're playing games at a time when the president of the United States and the Western alliance are going are — trying to contain — trying to contain Putin.
So, I rarely praise Ted Cruz, but Ted Cruz, for the last few years, has been pretty much right on Ukraine and Russia. And he's been very aggressive. A lot of Republican senators have been very aggressive: We need to do this to prevent a war. So I find, in general, Republicans have not followed Trump in any soft-on-Putin direction. Quite the reverse.
And so this could be seen as part of a larger contest, which Biden talks about, between democracies and autocracies. And if that's the case, we need to be using this moment — and I think we are using this moment — to really build a very practical — rebuild a practical set of alliances with Japan and the West to prepare for a long contest, and to see this context in the — this war in the context of that larger rivalry.
But I just want to push back a little bit on this. You said underlying unity. Sure, there's some underlying unity. But I — it's a little aggravating that certain Republicans, particularly in the Senate, especially if they're thinking of running for president, are — they're playing games at a time when the president of the United States and the Western alliance are going are — trying to contain — trying to contain Putin. ・・・・
And yet we're talking about the same group of Republicans who are lashing out at the president of the United States because he won't do as much as they think he should do in support of Ukraine. That's not free. That's not a rounding error. We're talking billions, maybe even trillions of dollars.
And so there are Americans who look at what's happening with Ukraine, and they're all for it. We should support them. We should do whatever it takes to defend — help the Ukrainians defend their country.
And so this could be seen as part of a larger contest, which Biden talks about, between democracies and autocracies. And if that’s the case, we need to be using this moment — and I think we are using this moment — to really build a very practical — rebuild a practical set of alliances with Japan and the West to prepare for a long contest, and to see this context in the — this war in the context of that larger rivalry.
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セイヤ
バイデン以下お尻にペニシリンを打たれる運命が待っているのか・・
道理でゼレンスキの人相は病気持ちの悪さがある。
世界中を性悪な病気をうつしまわっている感じがする。
ウクライナをプーチンが片付けなければ、平和はやってこない。
処でおののののかさん、言い医者知らないかな・?
予防としてペニシリンとワクチンを打っておこうと思う。日本政府は四本目のワクチンを5月から始めるそうだから・・おのののかさんも今から席取りしといた方が良い。番号札は15番が良いだろう・・・
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ペルどん 2
そんな相場で遊んでいるのか?キミはいずれペニシリンのお世話になるな。
私が言いたいのは、ウクライナが自衛戦争だと言うなら、かって、大東亜戦争を戦った日本も自衛戦争だ。(マッかカーサーの証言もある)
しかし、東京大空襲や原爆投下などの国際法違反の非道な戦争犯罪を被っても多くの日本人は米国を批判することなく、戦った日本が悪かったと言う。
この日本人が、ウクライナのことになるとすべてプーチンが悪く、ゼレンスキーが批判されないのはおかしいということ。戦争を止められるのはプーチンもゼレンスキーも一緒だ。
ゼレンスキーの各国国会演説は「手遅れ」だな。
こんな話がある。
昔、「手遅れ医者」と言われる医者がいた。病人が来ると先ず「手遅れです」と言っておく。治れば手遅れを治した名医と言われるし、ダメだった時でも「寿命です」の一言で納得してくれる。
ある日、患者が担ぎ込まれた。
「なんでもっと早く連れて来んのじゃ、バカ!手遅れだな」「今、屋根から落ちたとこなんですが、それなら何時連れて来ればよかったんです?」「落ちる前なら…」。
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学さん・セイヤ
「ゼレンスキーの背景」
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セイヤ
僕が言いたいのは、一人のトップの軽率な判断が国を亡ぼす、という故事にある話を指摘しているだけさ。有能な政治家なら、バイデンやNATOの口車に乗せられず、プーチンと事前の話し合いで解決出来た事を、今の段階で国を半壊させ、国民の4人に一人を国内外の難民にさせてしまった。
どんな形で終焉になるのか不明だが、僕達が生きている間に農業を除き、再生する事は無いだろうな・・・
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ペルどん
「語れば神髄の如く、発すればエロの如し。衆目駭然、敢えて正視するものなし、これ我が気まぐれペルドン君に非ずや。」
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