{"id":65803,"date":"2003-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/22\/vous-avez-dit-bizarro-bizarre\/"},"modified":"2003-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"vous-avez-dit-bizarro-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/22\/vous-avez-dit-bizarro-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"Vous avez dit \u201cBizarro<\/em>\u201d? Bizarre …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vous avez dit \u00ab\u00a0Bizarro<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0? Bizarre …<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

22 novembre 2003 — \u00ab\u00a0Bizarro<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb est un monde diff\u00e9rent, dans le langage d’une bande dessin\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaine bien connue<\/a>, où \u00e9volue notamment SuperMan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Le premier, le chroniqueur Justin Raimundo a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 Bizarro<\/em> dans sa chronique du 13 f\u00e9vrier 2003<\/a>, où il caract\u00e9risait de la sorte l’univers de l’administration GW Bush.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

« We’re living in a comic book world, where American superheroes confront an \u00a0\u00bbAxis of Evil,\u00a0\u00bb and the Evil One (Lex Luthor?) is defeated but lives to fight another day. I hear that comics have fallen on hard times, and that today’s sophisticated kids just can’t be bothered (too much like reading), but, really, if it wasn’t for my early infatuation with the world of DC Comics – Superman especially – the post-9\/11 world would seem completely inexplicable. I remember one story-line that had Superman trapped in \u00a0\u00bbBizarro World\u00a0\u00bb – another dimension, existing alongside our own, in which everything was weirdly skewed, perversely inverted: a parody of our own. As preparation for the world of 2002, I couldn’t have had a better education, for what else are we to make of this story of the airline passenger facing 20 years for using the lavatory without permission….?<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Raimundo revient sur son interpr\u00e9tation dans sa chronique du 19 novembre 2003<\/a>, où il constate que les signes abondent selon lesquels nous nous trouvons effectivement dans un « Bizarro World<\/em> ». Dans cette m\u00eame chronique, il cite la tr\u00e8s fameuse et tr\u00e8s talentueuse chroniqueuse du New York Times<\/em>, Maureen Dowd, d’origine irlandaise et qui n’a pas sa plume dans sa poche pour tirer \u00e0 boulets rouges sur l’administration GW. Raimundo cite une chronique de Dowd du 18 novembre<\/a>, où, effectivement, elle explore la voie d’un pr\u00e9sident \u00e9voluant dans un monde compl\u00e8tement fabriqu\u00e9, compl\u00e8tement restructur\u00e9 en un monde diff\u00e9rent. C’est \u00e9galement un th\u00e8me favori de Maureen Dowd.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

On comprend aussit\u00f4t que Bizarro<\/em> et le reste sont fort proches de notre th\u00e8se g\u00e9n\u00e9rale sur le virtualisme, — ce qui explique notre int\u00e9r\u00eat pour cette approche de Raimundo notamment. Encore r\u00e9cemment, avant-hier en fait, nous avons consacr\u00e9 un \u00ab\u00a0F&C\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 cette id\u00e9e du virtualisme triomphant<\/a>, car il nous apparaît tel durant cette ahurissante visite londonienne de GW.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mais quelle n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 notre surprise en d\u00e9couvrant, ce matin, sur le site du Weekly Standard<\/em>, un texte de parodie empruntant \u00e0 la mise en page et au style du New York Times<\/a>, avec ce titre : « The Bizarro War strategy…<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

C’est une parodie, mais, comme dans toute parodie, le texte contient des \u00e9l\u00e9ments tr\u00e8s concrets de critique par d\u00e9rision de la situation d\u00e9crite. Nous reproduisons ci-dessous ce texte, relativement court, pour donner l’id\u00e9e de la parodie et du sujet qu’elle prend pour cible. Le texte est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans un fac simile<\/em> d’une premi\u00e8re page du New York Times<\/em>, \u00e0 la date du 20 novembre 2003, avec comme auteur (invent\u00e9) Madeleine Woodward.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

« Bush administration rolls out ‘bizarro war’ srategy for Iraq — Japanese Troops, Bombing Empty Buildings Included in Plan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Washington, D.C., November 20 — The Bush administration this week unveiled its new strategic initiative in Iraq, dubbed \u00a0\u00bbOperation Bizarro War\u00a0\u00bb. The name comes from a Superman \u00a0\u00bbBizarro World\u00a0\u00bb comic collection featuring a cube-shaped planet inhabited by imperfect replicas of characters from DC Comics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» \u00ab\u00a0In order to fight a nontraditional enemy who has non visible organization and no uniforms, we have adopted some unusual tactics of our own,\u00a0\u00bb sait an unnamed senior administration official. \u00ab\u00a0Essentially, we’re doing things which would seem to be directly opposed to our national interest and our goals in Iraq.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» According to the official, Operation Bizarro War includes three major elements all designed to convince the enemy that \u00ab\u00a0we are crazy as loons.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Recruiting troops who don’t kill: The U.S. has persuaded Japan to send military forces, despite the fact that not one Japanese soldier has killed anyone in combat in 58 years. The Coalition will attempt to station Japanese troops out of harm’s way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Bombing empty buildins: The U.S. strikes terrorist hideouts in Iraq, but makes sure the buildings are empty of terrorist first. The objective is to keep the enemy shopping for real estate, and therefore too busy to attack Coalition troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Seeking another U.N. resolution: Nothing could seem more illogical to the enemy than returning to the Security Council which has thumbed its nose at the United States repeatedly in the past.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» \u00ab\u00a0Until now, the terrorists have had the advantage, by doing things we didn’t expect,\u00a0\u00bb the official added. \u00ab\u00a0But now we’ll show them what made the United States the world leader in illogical behavior. Remember, a confused enemy is a vulnerable enemy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Il est \u00e9videmment manifeste que ce texte s’adresse \u00e0 la nouvelle \u00ab\u00a0strat\u00e9gie\u00a0\u00bb am\u00e9ricaine de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9monstration de puissance\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 l’oeuvre depuis une quinzaine de jours. On a vu les premi\u00e8res manifestations de cette strat\u00e9gie<\/a>, tout comme une certaine conceptualisation qui en est donn\u00e9e<\/a>. Dans ce cas, le Weekly Standard<\/em>, l’organe des n\u00e9o-conservateurs, partisan \u00e0 outrance de l’attaque en Irak, se montre tr\u00e8s critique dans la mesure où il estime, comme les n\u00e9o-conservateurs aujourd’hui, que l’administration GW Bush est aujourd’hui en pleine retraite. La \u00ab\u00a0strat\u00e9gie Bizarro<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb fait partie de cette nouvelle attitude, qui est, selon les n\u00e9o-conservateurs, de refuser tout engagement s\u00e9rieux au profit d’une repr\u00e9sentation de la guerre. (Le paradoxe \u00e9tant \u00e9galement que les n\u00e9o-conservateurs furent eux-m\u00eames des adeptes extr\u00eamement affirm\u00e9s du virtualisme, lorsqu’ils ont construit le cas de la guerre contre l’Irak, lorsqu’ils ont \u00ab\u00a0pr\u00e9par\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb l’apr\u00e8s-guerre, etc.).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

L’ensemble de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne nous permet de revenir aux hypoth\u00e8ses n\u00e9es du virtualisme. Effectivement, la \u00ab\u00a0strat\u00e9gie Bizarro<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb consistant \u00e0 tirer sur des maisons vides et \u00e0 faire des d\u00e9monstration de puissance comme dans un exercice, semble bien illustrer une approche compl\u00e8tement virtualiste de la guerre. Cette accumulation d’\u00e9l\u00e9ments sur le virtualisme de l’administration GW Bush fait penser qu’on se trouve de plus en plus devant un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne psycho-politique d’une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ind\u00e9niable, et d’une importance consid\u00e9rable, — en m\u00eame temps qu’une bizarrerie ind\u00e9niable. Les th\u00e8ses de Raimundo sont loin d’\u00eatre d\u00e9plac\u00e9es.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vous avez dit \u00ab\u00a0Bizarro\u00ab\u00a0? Bizarre … 22 novembre 2003 — \u00ab\u00a0Bizarro\u00a0\u00bb est un monde diff\u00e9rent, dans le langage d’une bande dessin\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaine bien connue, où \u00e9volue notamment SuperMan. Le premier, le chroniqueur Justin Raimundo a \u00e9voqu\u00e9 Bizarro dans sa chronique du 13 f\u00e9vrier 2003, où il caract\u00e9risait de la sorte l’univers de l’administration GW Bush.… <\/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":[4167,4166,4168,857,1104,1383,610],"class_list":["post-65803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-bande","tag-bizarro","tag-dessinee","tag-irak","tag-neocons","tag-raimundo","tag-virtualisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65803","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=65803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}