{"id":65772,"date":"2003-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/19\/la-difficile-situation-de-la-diplomatie-britannique-soumise-au-blairiste-grand-ecart\/"},"modified":"2003-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T00:00:00","slug":"la-difficile-situation-de-la-diplomatie-britannique-soumise-au-blairiste-grand-ecart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/10\/19\/la-difficile-situation-de-la-diplomatie-britannique-soumise-au-blairiste-grand-ecart\/","title":{"rendered":"La difficile situation de la diplomatie britannique soumise au blairiste \u201cgrand \u00e9cart\u201d<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

La difficile situation de la diplomatie britannique soumise au blairiste grand \u00e9cart<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t19 octobre 2003 Deux affaires viennent illustrer la difficile situation o\u00f9 se trouvent les fonctionnaires, ministres, etc, britanniques, plac\u00e9s dans l’obligation de suivre les sinueuses et implicites consignes du grand \u00e9cart de Tony Blair. Le plus souvent, on parle du grand \u00e9cart ext\u00e9rieur, entre USA et Europe mais on parle, ici, d’un autre grand \u00e9cart compl\u00e8tement int\u00e9rieur, pour les Britanniques eux-m\u00eames : grand \u00e9cart entre la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (le constat, le jugement qu’on en fait, etc), et les obligations de se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer \u00e0 une appr\u00e9ciation respectueuse des innombrables sottises d’une politique am\u00e9ricaine brutale et unilat\u00e9rale jusqu’\u00e0 l’irresponsabilit\u00e9 et de la cascade en cha\u00eene des cons\u00e9quences de ces sottises.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(Certains Am\u00e9ricains ont un autre nom \u00e0 offrir \u00e0 la place de sottise, quoiqu’ils soient moins insistants aujourd’hui. \u00c9ventuellement, sugg\u00e8rent certains, c’est une question de points de vue qui diff\u00e8rent ; \u00e9ventuellement, mais le point de vue diff\u00e9rent n’est pas que g\u00e9ographique, il est aussi culturel et le reste. A la limite, il concerne la d\u00e9finition d’une sottise. Vaste d\u00e9bat.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes deux affaires concernent :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• L’\u00e9trange cas de l’ambassadeur britannique en Ouzb\u00e9kistan, qui avait appel\u00e9 un chat un chat (\u00e0 savoir, d\u00e9crivant le r\u00e9gime ouzb\u00e8k comme corrompu et brutal, avec des m\u00e9thodes d’action extr\u00eamement cruelles, etc). Bien entendu, tout cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 enrob\u00e9 d’une sauce convenable, mettant en cause par l’acte de la diffamation l’honorabilit\u00e9 du diplomate<\/a>. Le diplomate a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9 sous le coup d’accusations calomnieuses apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Clara Short (d\u00e9mission), qui l’avait d’ailleurs averti loyalement des menaces pesant sur lui (\u00ab I love the job you are doing down here, but you know, don’t you, that if I go, you go.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Britain’s ambassador in Tashkent, who mysteriously returned to this country last month on temporary sick leave, was the victim of threats from Downing Street related to his outspoken views on US foreign policy in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Inquiries by the Guardian have discovered that Craig Murray, one of Britain’s youngest ambassadors, was subsequently called back from his Uzbekistan post, threatened with the loss of his job, and accused of a miscellaneous string of diplomatic shortcomings in what his friends say is a wholly unfair way.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The accusations against him included: Supporting the visa application of the daughter of an Uzbek family friend who overstayed in England; Drinking too convivially with Uzbek locals; Allowing an embassy Land Rover to be driven down steps.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Murray’s subsequent episode of depression, for which he had medical treatment, was preceded by what one Foreign Office source calls a campaign of systematic undermining.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb A senior source said the former ambassador had been put under pressure to stop his repeated criticisms of the brutal Karimov regime, accused among other things of boiling prisoners to death. The source said the pressure was partly exercised on the orders of No 10, which found his outspokenness about the compromises Washington was prepared to make in its war on terror increasingly embarrassing in the lead up to the Iraq war.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb He was told that the next time he stepped away from the American line, he would lose his post, said the source. During a visit earlier this year at the height of the political tensions prior to the Iraq invasion, the former development secretary, Clare Short, is reported to have said to him: I love the job you are doing down here, but you know, don’t you, that if I go, you go. She eventually resigned over the Iraq war.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t• Le cas du ministre Peter Hain est diff\u00e9rent mais aussi r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur du climat qui r\u00e8gne aujourd’hui au Royaume-Uni, dans un cas o\u00f9 l’habituel fondement du service public est totalement pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9<\/a>. En effet, ce qui doit guider les fonctionnaires n’est plus l’int\u00e9r\u00eat du Royaume-Uni, mais la ligne de Washington et, dans le cas de Peter Hain, mieux encore, la ligne des n\u00e9o-conservateurs (laquelle est d’ailleurs aujourd’hui en voie d’\u00eatre pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9e, les choses vont vite, mais passons sur une stupidit\u00e9 de plus, du fait britannique cette fois). L’argument de fond de Hain concerne un autre probl\u00e8me, qui reprend d’ailleurs sous une forme plus nuanc\u00e9e le grand \u00e9cart de Blair entre l’Europe et les \u00c9tats-Unis (des \u00c9tats-Unis d\u00e9barrass\u00e9s de la ligne unilat\u00e9raliste de l’\u00e9quipe GW) ; autre probl\u00e8me, autre d\u00e9bat, ce qui compte ici est l’acte de censure contre un texte qui ne respecte par l’orthodoxie ( !) de la politique extr\u00e9miste de Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, has been forced by Jack Straw to scrap a prepared speech in which he urged Britain to embrace a progressive, united Europe rather than the socially divisive free market philosophy of the United States under President George Bush.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb There may have been a hint in the draft speech that ministers want Tony Blair’s ally on Iraq, President Bush, defeated next November to achieve our ideal partnership of principle between a progressive united Europe and a progressive internationalist US. We have to work for both. At present we have neither. We have to work with America whoever is in charge.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb In the draft speech, which was to have been delivered as the Jean Monnet lecture at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth on Thursday night, Mr Hain went out of his way to stress the need for Europe to learn from the US and to warn against turning our back on America, a gift to US unilateralists.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The quest for a more equal partnership should lead to neither rivalry nor subservience, it said.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb But his main offence appears to have been a sharp contrast between Europe’s preference for an open, democratic world committed to global social justice, governed by multilateral rules and enforced by modernised international institutions and the clear but unspecified alternative offered by US neo-conservatives.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Hain’s argument was that Europe’s divisions have marginalised its influence, especially in defence and foreign policy. Britain has far more to learn from Europe’s record of social investment than we do from America if we want all our people to succeed in a knowledge economy, he planned to say.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The key paragraph, which officials will not identify, may well have been what followed. American-style free-marketism may have delivered higher productivity and growth in the US, but at a cost of poor public services, low social standards, weak communities, rising violence and high poverty. That’s not an agenda for a progressive Europe.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tLes exemples donn\u00e9s sont flagrants et, certes, il ne s’agit que de la partie \u00e9merg\u00e9e de l’iceberg. D’autres affaires de cette sorte, dont la plupart sont gard\u00e9es secr\u00e8tes ou sont \u00e9touff\u00e9es, prolif\u00e8rent dans l’appareil de l’\u00c9tat. Aujourd’hui, la diplomatie britannique est en train de broyer sa traditionnelle vertu \u00e9thique de l’int\u00e9r\u00eat national et souverain du Royaume-Uni. (On sait que la situation est similaire pour l’appareil militaire, au niveau de sa r\u00e9flexion et de ses analyses, ainsi que pour l’appareil des services de renseignement, qui n’a jamais rencontr\u00e9 une crise structurelle de l’importance de celle qui le secoue aujourd’hui, en directe connexion avec la question irakienne.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est une trag\u00e9die sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent pour la diplomatie de la qualit\u00e9 de la britannique que de lire une phrase comme celle-ci, qui vaut les instructions que recevaient les diplomates des pays satellites par rapport \u00e0 Moscou du temps du Pacte de Varsovie : \u00ab He was told that the next time he stepped away from the American line, he would lose his post, said the source.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl s’agit d’un \u00e9tat de crise. On voit mal comment l’appareil de l’\u00c9tat pourrait supporter longtemps de telles contraintes, qui sont susceptibles de pervertir le climat, le moral des fonctionnaires, leur comportement, jusqu’\u00e0 des points de dommage irr\u00e9m\u00e9diable. D’autre part, comme on l’a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/a>, cette crise influe directement sur la qualit\u00e9 de l’analyse par distorsion volontaire, par r\u00e9flexe inconscient d’auto-justification de telles pratiques, jusqu’\u00e0 provoquer les erreurs les plus graves. C’est un aspect important, par son effet pratique, de la crise britannique exclusivement due aux contraintes que lui imposent les special relationships<\/em>. Par essence, c’est un domaine de plus qui fait penser que la prolongation de cet \u00e9tat de suj\u00e9tion britannique vis-\u00e0-vis des USA n’est pas loin d’un point de rupture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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