{"id":65784,"date":"2003-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/02\/une-psychologie-en-panne-transatlantique\/"},"modified":"2003-11-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-02T00:00:00","slug":"une-psychologie-en-panne-transatlantique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/02\/une-psychologie-en-panne-transatlantique\/","title":{"rendered":"Une psychologie en panne transatlantique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Une psychologie en panne transatlantique<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\t2 novembre 2003 Dans sa chronique du 1er novembre<\/a>, William Pfaff s’int\u00e9resse \u00e0 la question centrale des rapports entre les USA et le reste du monde, selon l’expression consacr\u00e9e, plus particuli\u00e8rement, l’Europe occidentale, le partenaire transatlantique des USA. Son constat est particuli\u00e8rement pessimiste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab … More than nine months into the Iraq crisis, meetings between West Europeans and Americans of goodwill remain strained nondialogues in which most of the American participants find it hard to admit that the catastrophic loss of America’s reputation abroad has anything to do with them.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb … The American story since 1942 (and before) is well known, and is considered by Americans and others a story reflecting responsibility and high-mindedness.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Despite aberrations in Vietnam and Latin America, the American story of responsible world leadership has been accepted among democracies as an essentially valid account of the role modern America played during the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The problem today is that, in the view of many others, the story has changed. Another one has taken its place, even though most Americans deny that this is so.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDans le cours de son analyse qui projette sur la crise actuelle essentiellement le regard de l’historien, Pfaff rapporte ce d\u00e9tail d’un s\u00e9minaire auquel il a particip\u00e9 au Portugal. C’est une confidence d’un Irlandais, d\u00e9crit par Pfaff comme un ami de l’Am\u00e9rique (\u00ab an Irishman who had thought of himself as one of America’s best friends abroad.<\/em> \u00bb). Parlant des Am\u00e9ricains et des contacts qu’il a avec eux, l’Irlandais confie : \u00ab It’s as if they can’t hear.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPlus qu’aucun autre d\u00e9tail qu’on peut relever, cette confidence est exceptionnelle. Elle marque combien le pouvoir washingtonien et les milieux qui l’entourent se sont isol\u00e9s progressivement du reste. Mais encore plus, la phrase, qu’on pourrait reprendre pour bien d’autres cas, introduit l’hypoth\u00e8se que c’est la psychologie washingtonienne elle-m\u00eame qui est touch\u00e9e gravement (d’ailleurs sur un terrain bien pr\u00e9par\u00e9 : il y a longtemps qu’on constate cette rupture psychologique, cette impossibilit\u00e9 du dialogue, etc).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn doit noter combien cette remarque rencontre, par ce qu’elle dit de l’isolement de la psychologie washingtonienne, les remarques faites par John Hamre<\/a> \u00e0 propos de la question des armes de destruction massive iraniennes qui n’existent pas. Il s’agit du m\u00eame processus : l’incapacit\u00e9 d’entente des Am\u00e9ricains, telle que la constatent les Europ\u00e9ens, vient \u00e9videmment du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de virtualisme cr\u00e9\u00e9e par l’emploi massif des communications. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes cons\u00e9quences de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, ajout\u00e9 aux errements de la politique ext\u00e9rieure des USA, eux-m\u00eames explicables notamment par l’isolement psychologique de la direction, sont d’une importance consid\u00e9rable. C’est le fin de la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 US comme leader dans les relations internationales. C’est ce que nous dit Pfaff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab But what actually has happened during the past nine months is something Americans have yet to grasp, and that others have yet to say out loud: People outside the United States have stopped believing the American story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb They don’t think terrorism is an Evil force the United States is going to defeat. They say instead that terrorism is a way people wage war when they don’t have F-16’s or armored divisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb They say that Chechens, Moros, Taliban, Colombian insurgents, Palestinian bombers and Iraqi enemies of the U.S. occupation do not really make up a single global phenomenon that the world must mobilize to defeat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb They say that, actually, they had never really believed the American story in the first place. They had listened to it because Washington said it, and they respected Washington. Now they don’t.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb This is the reason why there is trouble between the United States and the countries that have been its allies. And this is why it may indeed prove true that between them, things will never be the same.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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