{"id":65099,"date":"2002-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/05\/20\/incredible-paul\/"},"modified":"2002-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"incredible-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/05\/20\/incredible-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible, Paul<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le 20 mai 2002<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous avions d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu le bugs<\/em> qui n’a pas eu lieu, celui de la fausse-fin de si\u00e8cle, celui des derniers jours de d\u00e9cembre 1999, lorsque toutes nos machines pass\u00e8rent de 99 (de 1999) \u00e0 00 (de 2000). Rien ne s’est pass\u00e9, sauf quelque chose comme $40, $250 ou $400 milliards que cette affaire co\u00fbta aux uns et aux autres pour faire les changements. (A cette occasion, il y eut d’ailleurs la plus belle alerte terroriste qu’on pouvait imaginer, des bruits de menace partout, des pr\u00e9cautions et ainsi de suite, aux States \u00e9videmment, au coeur de l’hyperpuissance. On se prend \u00e0 regretter que Ben Laden, qui existait d\u00e9j\u00e0, n’en ait pas profit\u00e9 pour attaquer.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMaintenant, il y a la guerre. C’est-\u00e0-dire, cette guerre, l\u00e0, en Afghanistan, terrible, formidable, la premi\u00e8re guerre de la plus Grande Guerre de tous les temps, dans tous les cas la Grande Guerre du XXIe si\u00e8cle. Paul Wolfowitz, le terrible neo-con<\/em> du Pentagone, le n\u00b02 du non-moins terrible secdef Don Rumsfeld, nous dit de cette guerre qu’elle est comme ceci (extrait d’un texte de Gerry J. Gilmore, AFPS, du 15 mai 2002) :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab \u00a0\u00bbI think we’ve made terrific progress. It’s quite impressive,\u00a0\u00bb Wolfowitz observed at a news conference in the National Press Club. American and coalition military operations in Afghanistan – Operation Enduring Freedom – began last October. Wolfowitz praised the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Tommy Franks, and his staff, noting they \u00a0\u00bbput together a plan out of nothing\u00a0\u00bb in a few weeks. Following that plan, U.S. and coalition troops liberated the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan in five or six weeks, Wolfowitz said. \u00a0\u00bbIt’s testimony to what our men and women in uniform can do – it’s incredible,\u00a0\u00bb the deputy defense secretary said.<\/em><\/strong> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est non seulement \u00ab incredible<\/em><\/strong> \u00bb, mon cher Paul, qu’en plus nous l’avons raffin\u00e9e, cette guerre, au point o\u00f9 \u00e7a ne t\u00e2che pas et o\u00f9 c’est propre comme un sou neuf. Ces formidables op\u00e9rations aux noms si \u00e9vocateurs (Anaconda<\/em><\/strong>, Snipe<\/em><\/strong>) ont d\u00e9sormais comme marque de fabrique de n’abriter aucun \u00e9v\u00e9nement particulier qui puisse rappeler de pr\u00e8s ou de loin, — disons, la guerre, the war<\/em><\/strong> quoi. Pour mieux exprimer ce que nous avons \u00e0 l’esprit, voici un d\u00e9licieux texte qu’a publi\u00e9 le Guardian,<\/a> le 15 mai justement, le jour o\u00f9 Paul parlait et trouvait cette guerre \u00ab incredible<\/em><\/strong> \u00bb. Il est de Rod Liddle. Ils nous pardonneront, le Guardian<\/em> et lui, parce qu’ils ont l’humour britannique, cela se lit, ils nous pardonneront ce petit emprunt sans cons\u00e9quence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab Perhaps the 21st century will not be as desolate and bloodthirsty as we had all feared. Quite apart from the Bush-Putin deal on nuclear weapons, which is cheering, we also have Operation Snipe – a new, gentler form of warfare that keeps everybody happy, including, rather touchingly, the enemy.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Six weeks ago, some 1,800 Royal Marines were dispatched to south-eastern Afghanistan to search and destroy al-Qaida fighters who had, in a most obliging fashion, left the area some time before.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Since then, the marines have met only bemused shepherds as they yomped up and down hills, poked around in a few caves and had a sort of private fireworks party with some ammunition left over from the fight against the Russians. Every now and then someone thinks they’ve found the body of Osama bin Laden, but it later turns out to be a goat, or a Canadian.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The complete and utter lack of anybody to kill has been heralded by the Royal Marines’ commander, Brigadier Roger Lane, thus: \u00a0\u00bb… from a strategic perspective, this is an encouraging sign\u00a0\u00bb.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Indeed, and from every other perspective, too. In fact the most onerous chore facing the squaddies is the rather tiresome daily display for the benefit of the television cameras: peering menacingly down the end of a rifle at a tree, clambering in and out of helicopters, and so on.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Nobody has been hurt. There have been no war crimes; no military miscalculations and resultant \u00a0\u00bbcollateral damage\u00a0\u00bb. And we are all happy that something is being done, even if it is not actually very much.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb For once I think we should tip our hats to those inspired and occasionally subversive penpushers who come up with names for military operations: a snipe hunt, a colleague reminds me, is US vernacular for a wild-goose chase.<\/em><\/strong> \u00bb<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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