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Federal judge limits Trump’s ability to deport Abrego Garcia after lengthy court battle

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Greenbelt, Md. – A federal judge in Maryland issued an emergency ruling Wednesday blocking the Trump administration from immediately taking Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia into ICE custody for 72 hours after he is released from criminal custody in Nashville, Tennessee — attempting to slow, if only temporarily, a case at the center of a legal and political maelstrom.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said in her order that the government must refrain from immediately taking Abrego into ICE custody pending release from criminal custody in Tennessee, and ordered he be returned to the ICE Order of Supervision at the Baltimore Field Office— the closest ICE facility near the district of Maryland where Abrego was arrested earlier this year.
Xinis said at an evidentiary hearing this month that she would take action soon, in anticipation of a looming detention hearing for Abrego Garcia in his criminal case. She said she planned to issue the order with sufficient time to block the Trump administration’s stated plans to immediately begin the process of deporting Abrego Garcia again upon release — this time to a third country such as Mexico or South Sudan.
Xinis’s order said the additional time will ensure Abrego can raise any credible fears of removal to a third country, and via «the appropriate channels in the immigration process.» She also ordered the government to provide Abrego and his attorneys with «immediate written notice» of plans to transport him to a third country, again with the 72-hour notice period, «so that Abrego Garcia may assert claims of credible fear or seek any other relief available to him under the law and the Constitution.»
TRUMP HAS CUSTODY OVER JAILED CECOT MIGRANTS, EL SALVADOR SAYS, COMPLICATING COURT FIGHTS
Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, to protest the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador in March in what administration officials said was an administrative error, on July 7, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
Xinis said in her order Wednesday that the 72-hour notice period is necessary «to prevent a repeat of Abrego Garcia’s unlawful deportation to El Salvador by way of third-country removal.»
«Defendants have taken no concrete steps to ensure that any prospective third country would not summarily return Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in an end-run around the very withholding order that offers him uncontroverted protection,» she said.
The order from Xinis, who presided over Abrego Garcia’s civil case, was ultimately handed down on Wednesday just two minutes after a federal judge in Nashville — U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw — issued a separate order, upholding a lower judge’s decision that Abrego should be released from criminal custody pending trial in January.
Crenshaw said in his order that the government failed to provide «any evidence that there is something in Abrego’s history at warrants detention.»
The plans, which Xinis ascertained over the course of a multi-day evidentiary hearing earlier this month, capped an exhausting, 19-week legal saga in the case of Abrego Garcia that spanned two continents, multiple federal courts, including the Supreme Court, and inspired countless hours of news coverage.
Still, it ultimately yielded little in the way of new answers, and Xinis likened the process to «nailing Jell-O to a wall,» and «beating a frustrated and dead horse,» among other things.
«We operate as government of laws,» she scolded lawyers for the Trump administration in one of many terse exchanges. «We don’t operate as a government of ’take my word for it.’»
FEDERAL JUDGE EXTENDS ARGUMENTS IN ABREGO GARCIA CASE, SLAMS ICE WITNESS WHO ‘KNEW NOTHING’

A person holds up a sign referencing the the CECOT prison in El Salvador during demonstration against President Donald Trump and his immigration policies in Houston, Texas, on May 1, 2025. (Photo: AFP va Getty Images) (AFP via Getty)
Xinis had repeatedly floated the notion of a temporary restraining order, or TRO, to ensure certain safeguards were in place to keep Abrego Garcia in ICE custody, and appeared to agree with his attorneys that such an order is likely needed to prevent their client from being removed again, without access to counsel or without a chance to appeal his country of removal.
«I’m just trying to understand what you’re trying to do,» Xinis said on more than one occasion, growing visibly frustrated.
«I’m deeply concerned that if there’s no restraint on you, Abrego will be on another plane to another country,» she told the Justice Department, noting pointedly that «that’s what you’ve done in other cases.»
Those concerns were echoed repeatedly by Abrego Garcia’s attorneys in a court filing earlier this month.
They noted the number of times that the Trump administration has appeared to have undercut or misrepresented its position before the court in months past, as Xinis attempted to ascertain the status of Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, and what efforts, if any, the Trump administration was making to comply with a court order to facilitate his return.
The Trump administration, who reiterated their belief that the case is no longer in her jurisdiction, will almost certainly move to immediately appeal the restraining order to a higher court.
TRUMP HAS CUSTODY OVER JAILED CECOT MIGRANTS, EL SALVADOR SAYS, COMPLICATING COURT FIGHTS

Demonstrators gather cheering and chanting slogans, during the nationwide «Hands Off!» protest against Trump in Boston, Massachusetts on April 5, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty)
The order comes two weeks after an extraordinary, multi-day evidentiary hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, where Xinis sparred with Trump administration officials as she attempted to make sense of their remarks and ascertain their next steps as they look to deport Abrego Garcia to a third country.
She said she planned to issue the order before the date that Abrego could possibly be released from federal custody— a request made by lawyers for Abrego Garcia, who asked the court for more time in criminal custody, citing the many countries he might suffer persecution in — and concerns about what legal status he would have in the third country of removal.
Without legal status in Mexico, Xinis said, it would likely be a «quick road» to being deported by the country’s government to El Salvador, in violation of the withholding of removal order.
And in South Sudan, another country DHS is apparently considering, lawyers for Abrego noted the State Department currently has a Level 4 advisory in place discouraging U.S. travel due to violence and armed conflict.
Americans who do travel there should «draft a will» beforehand and designate insurance beneficiaries, according to official guidance on the site.
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS TELL JUDGE THEY WILL DEPORT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA TO A THIRD COUNTRY AFTER DETENTION

Abrego Garcia’s attorneys speak to reporters outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, in July. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital) (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
In court, both in July and in earlier hearings, Xinis struggled to keep her own frustration and her incredulity at bay after months of back-and-forth with Justice Department attorneys.
Xinis has presided over Abrego Garcia’s civil case since March, when he was deported to El Salvador in violation of an existing court order in what Trump administration officials described as an «administrative error.»
She spent hours pressing Justice Department officials, over the course of three separate hearings, for details on the government’s plans for removing Abrego Garcia to a third country — a process she likened to «trying to nail Jell-O to a wall.»
Xinis chastised the Justice Department this month for presenting a DHS witness to testify under oath about ICE’s plans to deport Abrego Garcia, fuming that the official, Thomas Giles, «knew nothing» about his case, and made no effort to ascertain answers — despite his rank as ICE’s third-highest enforcement official.
The four hours of testimony he provided was «fairly stunning,» and «insulting to her intelligence,» Xinis said.
Ultimately, the court would not allow the «unfettered release» of Abrego Garcia pending release from federal custody in Tennessee without «full-throated assurances» from the Trump administration that it will keep Abrego Garcia in ICE custody for a set period of time and locally, Xinis said, to ensure immigration officials do not «spirit him away to Nome, Alaska.»
During the July hearing, Judge Xinis notably declined to weigh in on the request for sanctions filed by lawyers for Abrego Garcia, but alluded to it in her ruling Wednesday.
«Defendants’ defiance and foot- dragging are, to be sure, the subject of a separate sanctions motion,» she said in the ruling— indicating further steps could be taken as she attempts to square months of differing statements from Trump officials.
«The Court will not recount this troubling history in detail, other than to note Defendants’ persistent lack of transparency with the tribunal adds to why further injunctive relief is warranted,» she said.
TRUMP’S REMARKS COULD COME BACK TO BITE HIM IN ABREGO GARCIA DEPORTATION BATTLE

This still from video from July 22, 2015 show Paula Xinis from US Senate Judiciary Committee (US Senate Judiciary Committee)
The Justice Department, after a short recess, declined to agree, prompting Xinis to proceed with her plans for the TRO.
Xinis told the court that ultimately, «much delta» remains between where they ended things in court, and what she is comfortable with, given the government’s actions in the past.
This was apparent on multiple occasions Friday, when Xinis told lawyers for the Trump administration that she «isn’t buying» their arguments or doesn’t «have faith» in the statements they made — reflecting an erosion of trust that could prove damaging in the longer-term.
The hearings this week capped months of back-and-forth between Xinis and the Trump administration, as she tried, over the course of 19 weeks, to track the status of a single migrant deported erroneously by the Trump administration to El Salvador—and to trace what attempts, if any, they had made facilitate his return to the U.S.
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Xinis previously took aim at what she deemed to be the lack of information submitted to the court as part of an expedited discovery process she ordered this year, describing the government’s submissions as «vague, evasive and incomplete»— and which she said demonstrated «willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations.»
On Friday, she echoed this view. «You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it, in my view,» Xinis said.
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El gobierno de Chile le retiró el apoyo a Bachelet para la ONU: por qué beneficia al argentino Rafael Grossi

En la frenética carrera para acceder al máximo cargo de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), el diplomático argentino Rafael Grossi parece haber recibido una buena noticia para sus pretensiones con la decisión de Chile de retirar el apoyo a la expresidenta trasandina Michelle Bachelet.
“Hemos llegado a la convicción que el contexto de esta elección, la dispersión de candidaturas de países de América Latina y las diferencias con algunos de los actores relevantes que definen este proceso, hacen inviable esta candidatura y el eventual éxito de esta postulación”, esgrimió en un escueto comunicado el actual gobierno de José Antonio Kast.
La candidatura de Bachelet seguirá adelante porque al momento de su lanzamiento contaba también con el apoyo de Brasil y México. Fue una astuta jugada del por entonces presidente Gabriel Boric a sabiendas de que existía la posibilidad de que el nuevo mandatario Kast hiciera lo que terminó haciendo: retirarle el apoyo.
Pese a las reiteradas críticas de Javier Milei al sistema multilateral en general y a la ONU en particular, el gobierno argentino se comprometió en apoyar y trabajar para impulsar la candidatura de Grossi, renombrado diplomático que en la actualidad encabeza el trascendental Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OEIA). La Cancillería argentina designó a un equipo especial para acompañar la candidatura de Rafael Grossi. (Foto: REUTERS/Tomas Cuesta)
Durante el lanzamiento formal de su candidatura en la Argentina en diciembre del año pasado, TN pudo confirmar que la Cancillería a cargo de Pablo Quirno designó a un grupo de diplomáticos que desde Buenos Aires monitorearía el proceso junto con la representación permanente de nuestro país en la sede de la ONU en Nueva York.
La retirada del apoyo por parte de Chile podría leerse como un contundente mensaje de que Bachelet no puede lograr un consenso interno ni siquiera en esta importante postulación, lo que podría debilitar su carrera. De todos modos, Brasil es un país de peso que busca tener una banca en una hipotética –y compleja- reforma del Consejo de Seguridad.
Leé también: Rafael Grossi busca convertirse en el primer argentino en liderar la ONU: lanza su candidatura en Buenos Aires
Además de Grossi y Bachelet, los otros candidatos que están en carrera para convertirse en secretario general de la ONU son: la argentina Virginia Gamba, impulsada por Maldivas; Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis, apoyada por su país Costa Rica; y el senegalés Macky Sall, que cuenta con el respaldo de Burundi.
Existe una regla no escrita que el próximo secretario general debe ser latinoamericano. Sólo hubo uno en la historia. El peruano Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ocupó ese cargo durante dos períodos entre 1982 y 1991.
La costarricense Grynspan Mayufis es una de las que, a priori, podría competir cabeza a cabeza con Grossi si la candidatura de Bachelet termina perdiendo peso.

La costarricense Rebeca Grynspan es otra de las favoritas para el máximo cargo de la ONU. (Foto: REUTERS/Mayela Lopez)
La clave está en la decisión de los cinco miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad (Estados Unidos, Rusia, China, Francia y el Reino Unido), quienes tienen que seleccionar a uno de los candidatos para postularlo frente a la Asamblea General. Será una única opción la que salga desde el máximo órgano de la ONU.
Por ello, es necesario esquivar un veto de estos países. Con que uno sólo decida vetar un nombre, esa persona no podrá continuar en carrera. El perfil dialoguista pero firme de Grossi gusta en el ámbito de la diplomacia internacional. A lo largo de los últimos años pudo demostrar su capacidad de negociar con Putin en el Kremlin, con Zelenski en Kiev o con representantes iraníes el desarrollo de su programa nuclear.
Con las audiencias y exposiciones públicas que los candidatos tendrán en los próximos meses se empezará a dilucidar con mayor claridad las posibilidades reales de cada uno. Puertas adentro de la Casa Rosada, la quita del apoyo de Kast a Bachelet fue leída como una buena noticia para Grossi.
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Trump 2.0’s Education Department unleashes top 5 most striking ‘wins’ against gender, DEI extremism

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A little over a year after Donald Trump took office for the second time and began going after what he described as «discriminatory» diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, including gender extremism and racial preferences in education, his administration is touting several «wins» it says are shifting the culture war on college campuses and beyond.
More than 300 colleges and universities have rooted out DEI, according to numbers in a Department of Education press release laying out various «wins» against DEI during President Trump’s second term. Other numbers the administration shared showed 45 colleges and universities have also removed DEI statements and messaging from university programs or websites, at least 15 have eliminated the use of diversity statements in hiring faculty or staff, at least 95 have either eliminated, renamed or shifted staff or faculty positions related to DEI, at least 175 have removed or restructured their current DEI offices, and over a half-dozen recently abandoned racially segregated graduation ceremonies.
Furthermore, College Board, best known for administering standardized tests like the SAT, revised criteria for their National Recognition Program, which the Department of Education says favored racial groups and awarded scholarships disproportionately to students from underrepresented ethnic groups.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CELEBRATES PROGRESS AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP ADMIN’S FIGHT TO SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS
Hundreds protest outside a rally held by President Donald Trump at Macomb County Community College in Warren, Michigan, on April 29, 2025. (Getty Images/Dominic Gwinn)
Here are five more striking DEI «wins» the Trump administration has had since the beginning of the president’s second term:
1. UPenn agreed to apologize, restore women’s records and bar males from women’s sports and intimate facilities
After finding UPenn violated Title IX, the department announced in early July that it had got the school to sign a resolution agreement requiring UPenn to restore individual women’s swimming records and titles, issue a public compliance statement, adopt biology-based definitions of «male» and «female» and send personalized apology letters to affected female swimmers. The move stripped transgender swimmer Leah Thomas of her 2022 national title, according to UPenn’s records.
«From day one, President Trump and Secretary McMahon vowed to protect women and girls, and today’s agreement with UPenn is a historic display of that promise being fulfilled. This administration does not just pay lip service to women’s equality: it vigorously insists on that equality being upheld,» said Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer who competed against Thomas. «It is my hope that today demonstrates to educational institutions that they will no longer be allowed to trample upon women’s civil rights, and renews hope in every female athlete that their country’s highest leadership will not relent until they have the dignity, safety, and fairness they deserve.»

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for fifth in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. ( Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
2. Education Department found California violated federal law by helping schools hide students’ gender transitions from parents
Earlier this year, the Education Department Student Privacy Policy Office found the California Department of Education to be in «continued violation» of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law granting parents access to their child’s school records.
The announcement was followed by the U.S. Supreme Court intervening in a case this month, when they sided with parents who were challenging California law that allowed staff to hide students’ gender transitions from their parents.
«Gender dysphoria is a condition that has an important bearing on a child’s mental health, but when a child exhibits symptoms of gender dysphoria at school, California’s policies conceal that information from parents and facilitate a degree of gender transitioning during school hours,» the court’s decision read. «These policies likely violate parents’ rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children.»
Meanwhile, at least 20 university-affiliated hospitals have ended or suspended puberty blockers, hormone therapies, gender transition surgeries or other transgender care for minors, according to the Education Department.
IVY LEAGUE WATCHDOG WARNS TRUMP’S ANTI-DEI WINS ARE TEMPORARY AS COLLEGES ‘WAIT HIM OUT’

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department alongside school children signing their own versions, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
3. Trump admin found Colorado school district to have violated Title IX for allowing males in girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports
Trump’s Education Department entered into another resolution agreement with the Jefferson County Public Schools District in Colorado after it found that the district was allowing transgender students access to female bathrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and to compete in female sports.
According to the department, the district committed to rescinding or revising any policies that allowed male students to use female intimate facilities, share overnight accommodations with them or compete in female sports. The district must also issue and prominently post a public statement committing to Title IX compliance using biology-based definitions of «male» and «female,» stating Title IX applies regardless of state law or sports governing-body rules, and explaining how students can report or file sex-discrimination complaints.
4. Education Department secures 31 agreements with colleges and universities to end partnership with nonprofit recruiting pipeline that Trump said provided racial advantages
Trump’s Department of Education secured 31 resolution agreements with universities and colleges who were partnering with The Ph.D. Project, an organization that helps hopeful doctoral students get into programs. The department’s Office of Civil Rights found the program «unlawfully limits eligibility based on the race of participants.»
«After initiating investigations several months ago into forty-five institutions of higher education for collaborating with the Ph.D. Project, OCR later determined that these institutions violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) by partnering with an organization that discriminates on the basis of race,» a February press release from the department states.
TRUMP ADMIN DETERMINES SJSU VIOLATED TITLE IX WITH HANDLING OF TRANS VOLLEYBALL PLAYER BLAIRE FLEMING

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at the White House. (Getty Images)
5. NCAA updates transgender athletic participation policy to keep men out of women’s sports
In Feb. 2025, the NCAA revised its transgender participation rules to restrict the women’s category to student-athletes assigned female at birth, barring athletes assigned male at birth from competing on women’s teams, though they are still allowed to practice with women’s teams and receive related benefits. The men’s category remains open to all eligible athletes, and the change took effect immediately on Feb. 6, 2025.
«Just over a year ago, we saw men claiming victories in women’s athletics. Colleges and universities were focused more on diversity, equity, and inclusion than ensuring graduates were prepared for success in life after graduation,» a Trump administration fact sheet on «wins» during the president’s second term stated.
«Institutions required DEI statements from faculty and held segregated affinity graduation ceremonies for students. Academic standards fell, admissions were skewed to favor race over merit, and students graduated with a massive pile of debt and degrees that led to no job prospects,» the sheet continues. «Today, institutions of higher education are changing the game because President Trump is bringing back America’s Golden Age — shifting the culture and restoring our nation’s institutions to greatness.»
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In the fact-sheet, the Trump administration also touted an end to «test-optional admissions» at «dozens» of colleges and universities, including several Ivy League campuses and others that it says are reinstating SAT and ACT admissions requirements.
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La guerra marcha mejor de lo que usted cree

La mayoría de los estadounidenses probablemente no recuerdan marzo de 2012 —si es que lo recuerdan— y piensan en los precios desorbitados de la gasolina. En el mes en que “Los Juegos del Hambre” arrasaba en taquilla y el presidente Barack Obama se encaminaba a una cómoda reelección, el precio del crudo Brent cerró el mes en torno a los 123 dólares el barril. Eso equivaldría a unos 175 dólares el barril en la actualidad.
Hasta el martes, a pesar del cierre efectivo del estrecho de Ormuz por parte de Irán y sus ataques a las instalaciones energéticas de sus vecinos, el precio rondaba los 100 dólares, ligeramente superior al precio medio ajustado a la inflación desde enero de 2001, que rondaba los 95 dólares.
Eso debería dar una perspectiva diferente al pánico que genera la guerra en Oriente Medio. Según la versión de los críticos, un ataque no provocado e innecesario contra Irán, lanzado a instancias de Israel, ya constituye un fiasco de política exterior que ha puesto en riesgo la economía global sin un objetivo claro ni un desenlace definido. Como declaró el senador Chris Murphy, demócrata de Connecticut, a Kristen Welker de NBC el fin de semana: «Nunca habíamos visto este nivel de incompetencia en materia de guerra en la historia de este país».
¿En serio? Hagamos un recorrido por algunos de los acontecimientos recientes.
- Durante la Operación Tormenta del Desierto de 1991 contra Saddam Hussein de Irak, una campaña ampliamente considerada un brillante éxito militar, la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos perdió 75 aeronaves, 42 de ellas en combate. En este conflicto, cuatro aeronaves tripuladas fueron destruidas: tres por fuego amigo y una en un accidente. Hasta la fecha, no se ha perdido ni un solo avión tripulado sobre Irán.
- La campaña aérea y terrestre estadounidense en esa operación duró seis semanas completas. Hoy se la recuerda como una guerra relámpago. El conflicto actual con Irán tiene menos de cuatro semanas.
- En la invasión de Panamá de 1989-90, cuya fase militar duró pocos días, Estados Unidos perdió 23 soldados y 325 resultaron heridos. Hasta el momento, en esta guerra, las bajas estadounidenses ascienden a 13 muertos. De los más de 230 heridos, la mayoría se ha reincorporado rápidamente al servicio.
- Durante la crisis del Golfo Pérsico, que comenzó con la invasión iraquí de Kuwait en agosto de 1990, la economía estadounidense entró en recesión y el Dow Jones cayó cerca de un 13% antes del inicio de la guerra aérea aliada. Desde que comenzó el conflicto con Irán en junio pasado con la Operación Martillo de Medianoche, el Dow Jones ha subido un 9% hasta la mañana del martes.
- Al inicio de la invasión de Irak en 2003, Estados Unidos lanzó un ataque fallido contra Saddam Hussein y su cúpula dirigente, algunos de cuyos miembros se convirtieron en líderes de la insurgencia. En esta guerra, gran parte de la cúpula iraní fue asesinada el primer día y aún no hay pruebas de que el nuevo líder supremo siga con vida. Yousef Pezeshkian, hijo del actual presidente, ha escrito que si Irán no logra impedir los continuos asesinatos de sus líderes, «perderemos la guerra».
- Entre 1987 y 1988, en la fase final de la llamada guerra de los petroleros, la administración Reagan cambió la bandera de petroleros kuwaitíes y ordenó a la Armada estadounidense que los escoltara fuera del estrecho de Ormuz. Una mina iraní estuvo a punto de hundir una fragata estadounidense. El conflicto amainó después de que Estados Unidos hundiera varios buques de la armada iraní. En esta ocasión, hemos destruido casi toda la armada iraní sin sufrir bajas navales propias.
- En 1991, Irak lanzó aproximadamente 40 misiles contra Israel. Casi ninguno fue interceptado a pesar del despliegue de baterías Patriot en el país. En la guerra actual, Israel registra una tasa de intercepción del 92% frente a más de 400 misiles. El ritmo general de lanzamiento de misiles por parte de Irán ha disminuido de 438 misiles balísticos el primer día de la guerra a 21 el lunes. Los ataques con drones también se redujeron de 345 a 75 en las mismas fechas.
- En los meses previos a la segunda guerra de Irak, la administración de George W. Bush argumentó, basándose en información errónea, que Saddam Hussein poseía armas de destrucción masiva. En la guerra actual, no cabe duda de que unos 440 kilogramos de uranio altamente enriquecido se encuentran almacenados y enterrados en Irán; posiblemente suficiente, con un mayor enriquecimiento y conversión a uranio metálico, para fabricar 11 bombas nucleares. Si la indignación por la guerra de Irak radicaba en que Hussein no tuviera capacidad para fabricar armas de destrucción masiva, ¿acaso ahora resulta aún más indignante que Irán sí la tenga?
- Uno de los peores errores de las guerras de Irak y Afganistán fue el intento de los administradores estadounidenses de transformar las sociedades de ambos países; esfuerzos bienintencionados con algunos resultados loables, pero que, sin embargo, escapaban a nuestro control. En esta guerra, a pesar de la retórica cambiante del presidente Trump, el objetivo ha sido razonablemente claro y coherente: Irán no puede poseer armas nucleares ni otros medios para amenazar a sus vecinos. En cuanto al cambio de régimen, esperamos que el pueblo iraní aproveche la debilidad de su liderazgo para forjar su propio destino. Pero no lo haremos por ellos.
- La administración Bush recibió escaso apoyo de las naciones árabes durante la invasión de Irak en 2003 y sus consecuencias. Ahora, The Times informa: «El líder de facto de Arabia Saudita, el príncipe heredero Mohammed bin Salman, ha estado presionando al presidente Trump para que continúe la guerra contra Irán, argumentando que la campaña militar estadounidense-israelí representa una “oportunidad histórica” para transformar Oriente Medio». Ojalá una forma de lograrlo sea mediante un tratado de paz entre Riad y Jerusalén.
- En retrospectiva, el mayor error de la guerra del Golfo fue terminarla demasiado pronto, antes de que las fuerzas de Saddam Hussein fueran completamente derrotadas. El presidente Trump no debería cometer el mismo error.
No ignoro los fallos de planificación del gobierno de Trump, en particular su falta de voluntad para justificar públicamente la guerra y conseguir más aliados antes de que comenzara la campaña. Además, comparo deliberadamente la guerra con Irán con guerras pasadas de escala similar, en lugar de con nuestros verdaderos fiascos militares en Vietnam, Corea y las dos guerras mundiales, en las que decenas de miles de estadounidenses murieron debido a una mala planificación táctica y una estrategia deficiente.
Sin embargo, si las generaciones pasadas pudieran ver lo bien que ha transcurrido esta guerra en comparación con aquellas en las que se vieron obligadas a luchar a un costo terrible, se maravillarían de la relativa buena fortuna de su posteridad. También se maravillarían de nuestra incapacidad para apreciar las ventajas de las que ahora disponemos.
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