Frases de Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick fue una Diplomática estadounidense. Se desempeñó como embajadora de Estados Unidos en las Naciones Unidas durante el mandato de Ronald Reagan.

Activa miembro del Partido Republicano, de convicciones conservadoras y ardiente anticomunista, favoreció el apoyo de Estados Unidos a las dictaduras militares en El Salvador y Argentina así como el boicot al gobierno sandinista en Nicaragua en la década de los ochenta del siglo XX. En 1985 la Universidad Francisco Marroquín le otorgó un doctorado honoris causa.[1]​

Es conocida por su Doctrina Kirkpatrick, que abogó por el apoyo de los Estados Unidos a los gobiernos anticomunistas del mundo, como manera de contrarrestar la influencia soviética. Este apoyo también era prestado a dictaduras autoritarias si eran favorables a los objetivos de Washington, creyendo que podrían ser reconvertidas a la democracia liberal. Escribió: "los gobiernos autoritarios tradicionales son menos represivos que las autocracias revolucionarias". Wikipedia  

✵ 19. noviembre 1926 – 7. diciembre 2006
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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Frases en inglés

“Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope, as children born to untouchables in India”

Dictatorships and Double Standards https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/dictatorships--double-standards-6189?page=all
Contexto: Traditional autocrats leave in place existing allocations of wealth, power, status, and other re- sources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But they worship traditional gods and observe traditional taboos. They do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope, as children born to untouchables in India acquire the skills and attitudes necessary for survival in the miserable roles they are destined to fill.

“Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.”

Legitimacy and Force (1988), 130.
Jeane Kirkpatrick talking about a report of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, which she termed "a letter to Santa Claus." as in A Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes by Peter L. Pellett http://www.unsystem.org/SCN/archives/scnnews18/ch06.htm, who quotes The Hypocrisy Of It All by Noam Chomsky (1999) http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1999_01_25.htm

“The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.”

Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Economist , 23 December 2006:131

“Russia is playing chess, while we are playing Monopoly. The only question is whether they will checkmate us before we bankrupt them.”

Speech given during the 1988 Barrick Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“And now, the American people, proud of our country, proud of our freedom, proud of ourselves, will reject the San Francisco Democrats and send Ronald Reagan back to the White House.”

1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Full transcript http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/san.diego/facts/GOP.speeches.past/84.kirkpatrick.shtml

“Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.”

As quoted by Dinesh D'Souza in What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 6: America the Beautiful

“No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.”

Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Economist , 23 December 2006:131

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