As Worldmeets.US has been documenting over the past month, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has come under fire both from within and without his country for opposing tougher U.N. sanctions against Iran, which are championed by not only the United States and Europe, but Russia and China as well.
In this broadside against Lula, columnist Sergio Malbergier of Brazil’s Folha newspaper writes in part:
How to explain our alignment with Tehran when contrasted with our vital and traditional political and economic allies such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the Arab countries (who are just as frightened of an Iranian bomb as Israel)? What do we gain by defending such an oppressive regime that has so many enemies? … We seem like adolescents who want to show that we’ve grown up and can argue with adults.
Today we’re pursuing a foreign policy of those who insist on keeping us separated from those we are closest to. This belated third-worldism is a mental complex of losers, and our immature and exotic foreign policy its most obvious manifestation.
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