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Ganska fantastiskt att Putin får lägga ut texten i NYT.Putin vänder sig till det amerikanska folket - i NYtimes.
"No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored."
Debattartikeln sin helhet: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?src=me&ref=general
Grabben kan, och gör en del viktiga poäng. Vad får internationella lagar, ex.vis den som reglerar och förbjuder användningen av kemiska och biologiska vapen, för betydelse när USA med ett potentiellt anfall underminerar själva principen för internationell rätt och urholkar FN's trovärdighet...
"No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored."
Debattartikeln sin helhet: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?src=me&ref=general
Grabben kan, och gör en del viktiga poäng. Vad får internationella lagar, ex.vis den som reglerar och förbjuder användningen av kemiska och biologiska vapen, för betydelse när USA med ett potentiellt anfall underminerar själva principen för internationell rätt och urholkar FN's trovärdighet...
NYT förklarar och delvis försvarar puliceringen här:
A Times reader, Lawrence DeVine, has a few questions about The Times’s publication of an Op-Ed article in Thursday’s paper by Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia. He asks: “Did he call up the editorial page editor and say, hey, how would you like 800 words on you, us and Syria, I’ll have it in by Wednesday night deadline, no sweat, I’ll take your usual freelance rates?”
It didn’t happen just that way, the editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal told me Thursday morning, but it also wasn’t too much more complicated than that.
The Times editorial department was approached Wednesday by an American public relations firm that represents Mr. Putin, offering the piece. Also on Wednesday, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, in the course of an interview about Syria, mentioned to The Times’s Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers that an article was in the works.
Mr. Rosenthal agreed to review the article and quickly decided to publish it. It was posted on the Times Web site by Wednesday evening.
“I thought it was well-written, well-argued,” he said. “I don’t agree with many of the points in it, but that is irrelevant.”
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/the-story-behind-the-putin-op-ed-article-in-the-times/?_r=0
Och intressant att Putin har kontrakterat en amerikansk PR-byrå. Putin verkar förstå att agera i det amerikanska systemet.
