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Viewing cable 06BUENOSAIRES718, MEDIA REACTION US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

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06BUENOSAIRES718 2006-03-28 15:14 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
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DE RUEHBU #0718/01 0871514
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 281514Z MAR 06
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3975
INFO RHMFISS/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL//SCJ2//
RULGPUA/USCOMSOLANT
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 000718 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, 
WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY 
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE US IRAQ US-BOLIVIAN TIES 
BELARUS US-RUSSIA MIDDLE EAST NEW ANTISEMITISM 
MONSANTO AND THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT US-URUGUAYAN FTA 
US TRADE POLICY INFLUENCE ON ARGENTINA ARGENTINE 
INVESTMENT 03/27/06 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Weekend papers lead with the US National Security 
Strategy; immigration demonstration drawing 500,000 in 
Los Angeles; US Secretary of State Rice's alleged 
statement that the US could withdraw a significant 
number of its troops in Iraq; the US Embassy in La 
Paz's response to President Morales' charges related 
to the bombings in La Paz; Russia denying USG charges 
that the Russian ambassador to Baghdad provided Iraq 
with intelligence information about US military plans 
in 2003; a new "anti-Semitic movement" in relation to 
Palestinian claims in the Middle East, which are 
backed by Iran; a US-Uruguayan FTA; the Argentine 
government hindering foreign investment; tens of 
thousands of Argentines marching throughout the nation 
to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1976 military 
coup; and Finnish firm Botnia announcing it would stop 
the construction of a paper pulp mill in Fray Bentos. 
 
2. OPINION PIECES AND KEY STORIES 
 
- "The US and a world at war" 
 
Centrist "Perfil" newspaper carries an opinion piece 
by Jorge Castro, political analyst and former 
Argentine Secretary for Strategic Planning during the 
Menem administration, who writes (03/26) "According to 
the US National Security Strategy, 'The US is at war. 
This is a National Security Strategy in times of war.' 
 
"... This NSE confirms and broadens the scope of the 
one from September 2002. It states that the biggest 
threat posed to the US comes from a combination of 
transnational terrorism and WMD. Time is not in favor 
of the superpower but against it. This is why the 
bigger the threat, the bigger the risk of inaction. 
 
"The decisive thing in this lengthy global war, as in 
all, is the political, and not the military factor. 
The main point of the NSE is that a long-term solution 
for transnational terrorism is progress in human 
liberty and dignity all over the world and 
particularly in the Middle East. It is an American 
idea that shows that the US is not a country limited 
by geographical borders but rather a civilization 
founded on democratic institutions and creed... 
 
"The world restructuring according to US values and 
interests largely depends on the incorporation of all 
significant countries into globalization. For this 
purpose, the fundamental issue is the deployment of 
institutional mechanisms of the new accumulation model 
- FTAs... 
 
"This long war has two adversaries, but three 
participants - the adversaries are the US and Islamic 
terrorist fundamentalism (Al Qaeda). The third 
participant is public opinion. And the luck of this 
Security Strategy, and of the conflict itself, will be 
decided by public opinion." 
 
- "Illegal Latin immigrants, an increasing force in 
the US" 
 
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington-based correspondent for 
daily-of-record "La Nacion," comments (03/27) "12 
million illegal Latin American immigrants are in the 
US. Their number increases by the day and they are 
starting to show their power... 
 
"More than 500,000 immigrants (most of them Mexicans 
and from Central America), staged a demonstration in 
Los Angeles and six other cities in an increasing 
mobilization that started a few weeks ago and will 
continue until April 10. Meanwhile, Washington is 
analyzing what to do - deporting or legitimizing them. 
 
"The US Senate will start to debate this issue today 
based on a questioned immigration reform draft bill, 
which has already been approved by the House and 
includes imprisonment sentences for those who help 
illegal immigrants. President George W. Bush will meet 
 
 
 
 
 
this Thursday with his Mexican counterpart, Vicente 
Fox, to discuss this issue, which has become the 
thorniest issue in the bilateral agenda." 
 
- "The conspiracy of the stubborn" 
 
Claudio Uriarte, left-of-center "Pagina 12's" 
international analyst, opines (03/27) "From what can 
be seen, Republican hard-liners have shot the G.O.P. 
in the foot... 500,000 to more than a million people 
marched last Saturday in Los Angeles, a weird 
demonstration of absolutely peaceful multi-race 
convergence whose only purpose was to protest against 
a draft bill that could criminalize illegal 
immigration. 
 
"The draft bill is a long-term political mistake for 
the Bush administration. Hispanics are mostly 
Catholics, family-lovers and conservative, they are 
mostly interested in working and making progress, 
being part of the 'American dream'... 
 
"... Nonetheless, the US is a country of the American 
hemisphere, which implies that said immigration will 
not possibly be stopped. For the same reason, what 
happened last Saturday in Los Angeles could well be 
the beginning of an important national movement, along 
the lines of that of the black people in the '50s. 
Does the US really want to exclude as illegal all the 
people who love the US, feel identified with its 
values, are neither terrorists nor much less, and at 
the same time do the jobs US citizens no longer want 
to take?" 
 
- "Rice is optimistic about US withdrawal from Iraq" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" reports (03/27) "In 
alignment with statements made by military commanders, 
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday 
that the US could well withdraw a significant number 
of its troops stationed in Iraq this year as long as 
Iraqi forces are able to take charge of the security 
of their country. 
 
"... In this way, (Rice's statements) contrasted with 
US President Bush's statements that US troops could 
stay in Iraq while he is in power until 2009." 
 
- "US-Bolivian dispute over attacks in La Paz" 
 
Business-financial "Ambito Financiero" reports (03/24) 
"Preliminary police findings on the attacks launched 
against La Paz hotels are totally contradictory with 
the stance of President Evo Morales, who blamed the 
USG. Confronted with the evidence, the Bolivian 
president had to face the complaint of the US Embassy. 
 
"... For its part, the US Embassy said yesterday that 
'Prevention against terrorism is a national interest 
issue for the two countries. Statements like the one 
of Morales hinder those efforts and are obstacles to 
our ability to cooperate in a broader relationship 
between the two countries.'" 
 
- "Russia denies US charges" 
 
Daily-of-record "La Nacion" (03/26) "Russia denied a 
US Pentagon report whereby the Russian ambassador to 
Baghdad provided the Iraqi government with 
intelligence information about US military plans 
during the first days of the US-led invasion in 2003. 
 
"The Russian denial is another demonstration of the 
increasing disagreement between Washington and Moscow 
on the Middle East. 
 
"Russia has already opposed the war in Iraq..., sought 
to prevent the submission of the Iranian nuclear 
program to the UN Security Council, which was promoted 
by the White House, and received envoys of Hamas, 
which is considered terrorist by the US after its 
victory in the Palestinian elections." 
 
 
 
 
 
- "The new anti-Semitism" 
 
Claudio Uriarte, left-of-center "Pagina 12's" 
international analyst, opines (03/26) "... Ironically 
enough, criticism of Israel as an 'expansionist State' 
continues now that the Jewish State... is close to 
dismantling its furthest settlements in the West Bank. 
 
"... Obviously enough, this does not mean peace, at 
most it is a walled truce. The Palestinians, who in 
2000 rejected the opportunity to have a State in the 
Gaza Strip, 95% of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, 
continue insisting on their claim for a State from the 
Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,' without Israel 
in the middle of it. Latest political developments in 
Iran and the Palestinian territories do nothing but 
reinforce this trend. Israel will withdraw from its 
positions because it cannot claim them as its own. 
However, the truth is that the backdrop of its 
enemies' claims is anti-Semitism." 
 
- "After the Israeli election" 
 
Gwynne Dyer, contributor to liberal, English-language 
"Buenos Aires Herald," opines (03/27) "... Israelis 
justify their unilateral and highly one sided 
'solution' with the argument that there is nobody on 
the Palestinian side to negotiate with, and since the 
victory of Hamas in Palestinian elections two months 
ago that argument sounds more plausible. But we 
arrived at this sorry situation because Israel was 
unwilling to negotiate fairly with any of the 
previous, more reasonable incarnations of the 
Palestinian leadership either. The settlements always 
got in the way. 
 
"... At them moment, Israel holds all the cards in the 
Middle East. Its army and its economy are incomparably 
stronger than those of its Arab neighbors. It has 
hundreds of nuclear weapons, and they have none. And 
it has 110 percent support from the US, the world's 
only superpower. But a prudent Israeli leader would 
conclude that now is therefore the right time to make 
a permanent peace with the Arabs, including the 
Palestinians, because nobody can be certain that it 
will still hold all those cards in twenty-five or 
fifty years' time. 
 
"Israel cannot have a permanent peace and the 
settlements too. It is making a bad trade." 
 
- "The (Argentine) Foreign Ministry faces Monsanto's 
offensive in Europe over soy" 
 
Matias Longoni, columnist of leading "Clarin," writes 
(03/26) "The (Argentine) government started to move 
its pieces in its confrontation with Monsanto... The 
Argentine Foreign Ministry ordered nine embassies in 
Europe to face Monsanto's offensive... 
 
"The nine embassies are those in Belgium, France, 
Germany, Austria, UK, Holland, Spain, Italy and 
Greece. All of them were instructed to send directions 
to local custom houses so that they know how to 
proceed every time Monsanto wants to stop a ship 
coming from Argentina." 
 
- "Uruguay - free trade authorized with the US" 
 
Business-financial "Ambito Financiero" reports (03/27) 
"The leftist Uruguayan coalition Frente Amplio, which 
took Tabare Vazquez to the presidency, enabled the 
government to negotiate free trade deals with the US 
and other world powers. The coalition green-lighted 
the government to negotiate an FTA, as some members of 
the Executive Branch wanted. 
 
"According to Argentine Assistant Secretary for 
Economic Integration Eduardo Sigal, the Vazquez 
administration had renounced the idea of negotiating 
an FTA with the US because the Bush administration's 
initial proposal did not include a substantial 
reduction of farm subsidies." 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- "The US could trouble Argentina" 
 
Business-financial, center-right "InfoBae" carries an 
opinion piece by Juan Wasilevsky, who writes (03/27) 
"The USG's strategy, which consisted of negotiating 
FTAs with a broad range of countries, both from Africa 
and Latin America, could well start negatively 
impacting on the volume of Argentine exports. 
 
"As a matter of fact, estimates are being made of the 
possible implications of the recent FTA reached 
between the US and Colombia on Argentine foreign 
trade... 
 
"According to the (Argentine) Institute for 
International Agricultural Negotiations, the FTA 
between the two countries was termed as a negative 
move or even as a retreat in Argentine negotiations to 
obtain greater trade advantages in the region." 
 
3. EDITORIALS 
 
- "How to boost investment" 
 
An editorial in daily-of-record "La Nacion," reads 
(03/26) "Argentina's sustainable economic growth calls 
for investment and businessmen that are determined to 
take long-term risks for the development of new 
undertakings and technological overhaul. But this 
investment will not come magically, but based on clear 
signs of respect for judicial security, tax incentives 
and the abandonment of offensive official messages 
toward some economic sectors of the country. 
 
"... The government's recent decision to suspend meat 
exports for 180 days with the purpose of lowering 
prices is an extraordinarily strong blow to 
investment. 
 
"... Argentina should urgently develop a plan to 
encourage productive investment before it is too late. 
This plan will not be feasible without a broad 
negotiation with productive sectors and without a 
strategy to seduce foreign capitals." 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
classified website at: 
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
The Media Reaction Report reflects articles and 
opinions by the cited news media and do not 
necessarily reflect U.S. Embassy policy or views.  The 
Public Affairs Section does not independently verify 
information. The report is intended for internal U.S. 
Government use only. 
 
GUTIERREZ