{"id":65366,"date":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/06\/etrange-strategie\/"},"modified":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"etrange-strategie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/06\/etrange-strategie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9trange strat\u00e9gie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"common-article\">\u00c9trange strat\u00e9gie<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t6 d\u00e9cembre 2002  Trois informations donnent une indication pr\u00e9cise du climat qui r\u00e8gne aujourd&rsquo;hui au Moyen-Orient, apr\u00e8s neuf mois de pressions continuelles des USA aupr\u00e8s des pays de la r\u00e9gion pour avoir un appui de leur ttaque contre l&rsquo;Irak. (En avril, Dick Cheney a effectu\u00e9 un voyage dans la r\u00e9gion, qui \u00e9tait le premier effort pr\u00e9cis et puissant pour obtenir cet appui. Hier 5 d\u00e9cembre, Wolfowitz, au d\u00e9part d&rsquo;Ankara, terminait la derni\u00e8re en date des initiatives US pour obtenir cet appui.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCe climat, d\u00e9favorable aux USA, constitue un probl\u00e8me grave, d&rsquo;autant plus grave qu&rsquo;on ne voit pas l&rsquo;amorce d&rsquo;une \u00e9volution vers une am\u00e9lioration. A mesure que les choses se pr\u00e9cisent, on d\u00e9couvre que les oppositions \u00e0 la politique am\u00e9ricaine sont plus solides que pr\u00e9vu, et que les pol\u00e9miques les plus vicieuses et les plus d\u00e9stabilisantes continuent \u00e0 \u00eatre entretenues (voir le cas saoudien). Cela implique que, dans ces pays, des fractions importantes estiment que les bonnes relations avec Washington ne sont pas (plus) n\u00e9cessairement la priorit\u00e9 absolue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLes trois informations cit\u00e9es comme exemplaires du climat concernent trois pays-cl\u00e9s : la Turquie, l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite et l&rsquo;Iran. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=540&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/ap\/20021203\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/turkey_us_iraq\" class=\"gen\">L&rsquo;accueil turc fait \u00e0 Wolfowitz a \u00e9t\u00e9 plus que mitig\u00e9.<\/a> Le r\u00e9sultat de la visite est un soutien extr\u00eamement conditionnel, alors que la position de ce pays est absolument centrale pour la strat\u00e9gie am\u00e9ricaine. Pour les Turcs, il faudra une nouvelle r\u00e9solution de l&rsquo;ONU autorisant l&#8217;emploi des armes contre l&rsquo;Irak pour qu&rsquo;ils autorisent l&rsquo;utilisation de leur territoire par les USA. En tout \u00e9tat de cause (donc, hypoth\u00e8se d&rsquo;une r\u00e9solution pro-guerre de l&rsquo;ONU comprise), le d\u00e9ploiement de forces US terrestres importantes en Turquie n&rsquo;est certainement pas assur\u00e9, les dirigeants turcs se montrant ouvertement r\u00e9ticents. Par rapport aux n\u00e9cessit\u00e9s op\u00e9rationnelles et au poids de la puissance US, la position turque est plus un demi-\u00e9chec qu&rsquo;un demi-succ\u00e8s. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab <em>Turkey&rsquo;s foreign minister said Tuesday that his country would allow the United States to use military bases in the country for a strike against Iraq, but only if the United Nations first approved such military action.<\/em> (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>When asked if the United States would have to seek a new U.N. resolution to use force against Iraq, Yakis said: \u00a0\u00bbYes, yes, yes. The Turkish understanding (is) that the present resolution, 1441, does not allow automatic resorting to armed intervention.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>  (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>Although the United States is looking at the possibility of sending ground troops into northern Iraq, Yakis said Turkey would have trouble supporting a large U.S. military presence. \u00a0\u00bbIt may be difficult to see tens of thousands of American forces being transported through Turkish territory into Iraq or being stationed or deployed somewhere in Turkey and their carrying out strikes inside Iraq,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00a0Les relations des USA avec l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite continuent \u00e0 se d\u00e9grader et, comme on le voit avec les deux autres exemples rapport\u00e9s ici, ce fait est loin d&rsquo;isoler l&rsquo;Arabie. (Les analystes am\u00e9ricains pr\u00e9voyaient effectivement un isolement saoudien \u00e0 mesure de la d\u00e9gradation des relations avec les USA). Le dernier \u00e9l\u00e9ment en date concernant cette d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration des rapports USA-Arabie est l&rsquo;affirmation, par le ministre saoudien de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/ap\/20021205\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/attacks_saudi&#038;e=4\" class=\"gen\">que l&rsquo;attaque 9\/11 contre les USA a \u00e9t\u00e9 manipul\u00e9e par Isra\u00ebl.<\/a>  M\u00eame si l&rsquo;affirmation ne concerne pas directement Washington, elle concerne la politique am\u00e9ricaine, les engagements fondamentaux am\u00e9ricains, et rejoint les pires accusations lanc\u00e9es aussi bien contre Washington que contre Tel Aviv \u00e0 l&rsquo;occasion de cette attaque.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab <em>The Saudi police minister has claimed Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks because they have benefited from subsequent criticism of Islam and Arabs, according to media reports. Interior Minister Prince Nayef made the remarks in the Arabic-language Kuwaiti daily Assyasah last month. The latest edition of Ain al-Yaqeen, a weekly Internet magazine devoted to Saudi issues, posted the Assyasah interview and its own English translation.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>\u00a0\u00bbWe know that the Jews have manipulated the Sept. 11 incidents and turned American public opinion against Arabs and Muslims,\u00a0\u00bb Prince Nayef was quoted as saying in the Arabic text, while Ain al Yaqeen&rsquo;s English version referred to \u00a0\u00bbZionists\u00a0\u00bb instead of \u00a0\u00bbJews.\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbWe still ask ourselves: Who has benefited from Sept. 11 attacks? I think they (the Jews) were the protagonists of such attacks,\u00a0\u00bb Nayef was quoted as saying. Nayef&rsquo;s spokesman, Saud al-Musaibeeh, did not respond to repeated requests for confirmation the minister had been quoted accurately.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>\u00a0\u00bbThe Saudis are telling us that they are an ally in the war on terror while their top government officials are still blaming &#8230; the Jews and denying that 15 Saudis took part in the attacks on New York and the Pentagon,\u00a0\u00bb Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat, said in Washington earlier this week.  \u00a0\u00bbThe Bush administration continually defends Saudi Arabia as a friend of the United States and a committed partner in the war on terror,\u00a0\u00bb Engel said. \u00a0\u00bbDoes this Saudi minister sound like a partner in the war on terror?\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>Sen. Charles Schumer, also a New York Democrat, wrote this week in a letter to the Saudi ambassador to the United States that \u00a0\u00bbthe interior minister&rsquo;s comments only serve to confirm American suspicions about the Saudi government&rsquo;s commitment to the war on terror.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>Nayef&rsquo;s remarks echoed rumors that have been heard in the Arab world since the attacks  but this time they are attributed to the man in charge of Saudi investigations into the attacks.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00a0Le troisi\u00e8me point concerne des d\u00e9clarations du pr\u00e9sident iranien, le mod\u00e9r\u00e9 Khatami.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=1850657&#038;fromEmail=true\" class=\"gen\">La d\u00e9claration est rapport\u00e9e par l&rsquo;agence Reuters.<\/a>) La d\u00e9claration est importante parce qu&rsquo;on a l&rsquo;habitude de juger que Khatami doit avoir comme politique de m\u00e9nager le plus possible les USA, pour affirmer sa position de mod\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur, o\u00f9 le courant r\u00e9formiste est tr\u00e8s affirm\u00e9, et pour avoir le soutien US dans cette m\u00eame position int\u00e9rieure. Khatami est, dans la hi\u00e9rarchie iranienne, le signe le plus convaincant que le pros\u00e9lytisme d\u00e9mocratique, \u00e9videmment am\u00e9ricain, pourrait marcher en Iran. Dans sa d\u00e9claration, au contraire, Khatami attaque les USA, mais dans un langage mod\u00e9r\u00e9 si l&rsquo;on veut, sans diabolisation, en leader responsable qui ne veut pas \u00eatre pris pour un extr\u00e9miste. Ce n&rsquo;est pas un Khatami brusquement devenu extr\u00e9miste qui parle mais un Khatami mod\u00e9r\u00e9 qui a jaug\u00e9 les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s, et qui conclut que la politique am\u00e9ricaine est un danger pour le monde. C&rsquo;est un signe de plus de l&rsquo;isolement croissant des USA dans la r\u00e9gion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab <em>Iranian President Mohammad Khatami mounted an unusually strong attack on the U.S. government on Wednesday, accusing it of seeking a pretext to attack Iraq and of posing a danger to the whole world. \u00a0\u00bbWe have always voiced our opposition to an American attack on Iraq and basically we sense danger from America&rsquo;s unilateral policies, not just for ourselves, but the whole of mankind,\u00a0\u00bb Khatami told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>Khatami, a moderate cleric who has made great efforts in the past to improve the Islamic Republic&rsquo;s relations with the West, said Iran was no friend of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who launched an attack on Iran in 1980 that sparked an eight year war in which one million people were killed. \u00a0\u00bbWe are not happy with the Iraqi regime which has carried out so much oppression against our nation, but this (a U.S. attack) is not the way to deal with it,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00a0\u00bbI hope this attack does not take place even though it seems that the United States is looking for a pretext.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb <em>\u00a0\u00bbUnfortunately, due to the rule of a hard-line (U.S.) faction whose policies in my view are dangerous for the whole world, a favorable outcome cannot be predicted,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tReprenons notre derni\u00e8re remarque en l&rsquo;\u00e9largissant. Ces trois p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties renforcent fortement l&rsquo;impression de l&rsquo;accroissement de la solitude am\u00e9ricaine dans cette r\u00e9gion, \u00e9galement comme une m\u00e9canique qui pourrait provoquer des regroupements anti-am\u00e9ricains surprenants. On assiste, en attendant un conflit qui reste toujours hypoth\u00e9tique, \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9rosion d&rsquo;une position de supr\u00e9matie absolue des \u00c9tats-Unis, non seulement dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, mais encore dans les ann\u00e9es 1970 jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 la r\u00e9volution iranienne. En attendant que la guerre contre l&rsquo;Irak transforme le Moyen-Orient en protectorat am\u00e9ricain, comme le but en est clairement affich\u00e9 \u00e0 Washington, le r\u00e9sultat qu&rsquo;on mesure chaque jour est exactement le contraire : l&rsquo;\u00e9rosion acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 de la domination am\u00e9ricaine dans la r\u00e9gion. Il faudra qu&rsquo;on explique un jour la pens\u00e9e profonde qu&rsquo;on trouve dans l&rsquo;actuelle strat\u00e9gie am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9trange strat\u00e9gie 6 d\u00e9cembre 2002 Trois informations donnent une indication pr\u00e9cise du climat qui r\u00e8gne aujourd&rsquo;hui au Moyen-Orient, apr\u00e8s neuf mois de pressions continuelles des USA aupr\u00e8s des pays de la r\u00e9gion pour avoir un appui de leur ttaque contre l&rsquo;Irak. (En avril, Dick Cheney a effectu\u00e9 un voyage dans la r\u00e9gion, qui \u00e9tait le&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3259,3198,857,2773,2613,1448],"class_list":["post-65366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-arabie","tag-gw","tag-irak","tag-iran","tag-turquie","tag-wolfowitz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}