{"id":65962,"date":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/05\/07\/le-systeme-panique-mais-il-na-pas-dalternative\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"le-systeme-panique-mais-il-na-pas-dalternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/05\/07\/le-systeme-panique-mais-il-na-pas-dalternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Le syst\u00e8me panique mais il n’a pas d’alternative<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le syst\u00e8me panique mais il n’a pas d’alternative<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t7 mai 2004 M\u00eame Thomas Friedman sort de ses gonds, s’\u00e9trangle de fureur, adresse un ultimatum \u00e0 GW Bush \u00e0 propos de l’honneur perdu de l’Am\u00e9rique<\/a>. Powell fait dire qu’il en a marre, mais marre<\/a> Le scandale des tortures semble \u00eatre devenu un torrent qui emporte tout<\/a>. O\u00f9 tout cela s’arr\u00eatera-t-il ? Question s\u00e9rieuse pour une crise devenue folle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQuand l’on conna\u00eet les connexions de Friedman, comme nous en avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9, il n’appara\u00eet certainement pas infond\u00e9 de faire l’hypoth\u00e8se que le ton, la fi\u00e8vre de son billet refl\u00e8tent un climat dans l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien, dont il est, dans cette instance, le messager. Cela n’a d’ailleurs rien pour \u00e9tonner. Panique semble le mot du jour et l’air du temps \u00e0 Washington, ces temps-ci : panique apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9faite d’Aznar, panique au moment des troubles d’avril en Irak, panique \u00e0 la fin avril lorsqu’il a fallu prendre une d\u00e9cision pour Falloujah, panique aujourd’hui, \u00e0 propos de la torture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00c9coutons l’exasp\u00e9r\u00e9 Thomas Friedman, le m\u00eame qui souhaitait bonne chance \u00e0 cette chouette petite guerre il y a un peu plus d’un an, le m\u00eame qui \u00e9crivait au moment de la guerre du Kosovo que les F-15 de McDonnell (Douglas) \u00e9taient l\u00e0 pour taper avec leurs bombes et pr\u00e9parer le terrain pour les restaurants McDonald qui suivent. \u00c9coutons le philosophe et moraliste Friedman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab We are in danger of losing something much more important than just the war in Iraq. We are in danger of losing America as an instrument of moral authority and inspiration in the world. I have never known a time in my life when America and its president were more hated around the world than today. I was just in Japan, and even young Japanese dislike us. It’s no wonder that so many Americans are obsessed with the finale of the sitcom Friends right now. They’re the only friends we have, and even they’re leaving.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb This administration needs to undertake a total overhaul of its Iraq policy; otherwise, it is courting a total disaster for us all.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb That overhaul needs to begin with President Bush firing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today, not tomorrow or next month, today. What happened in Abu Ghraib prison was, at best, a fundamental breakdown in the chain of command under Mr. Rumsfeld’s authority, or, at worst, part of a deliberate policy somewhere in the military-intelligence command of sexually humiliating prisoners to soften them up for interrogation, a policy that ran amok.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Either way, the secretary of defense is ultimately responsible, and if we are going to rebuild our credibility as instruments of humanitarian values, the rule of law and democratization, in Iraq or elsewhere, Mr. Bush must hold his own defense secretary accountable. Words matter, but deeds matter more. If the Pentagon leadership ran any U.S. company with the kind of abysmal planning in this war, it would have been fired by shareholders months ago.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tOn panique beaucoup \u00e0 Washington mais peu de choses changent et les d\u00e9sastres s’empilent les uns apr\u00e8s les autres. Finalement, comme le note WSWS.org avec son aust\u00e9rit\u00e9 id\u00e9ologique (trotskiste) coutumi\u00e8re<\/a>, les pressions pour la d\u00e9mission de Rumsfeld repr\u00e9sentent une bataille interne de l’establishment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Significantly, Bush’s alleged rebuke focused not on the substance of what took place at Abu Ghraib, but on the catastrophic political repercussions of the exposure of the abuse, particularly on US foreign policy in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world. His principal criticism was that Rumsfeld had not informed him of the existence of the digital photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners being abused by their US guards. They should have been brought to his attention, the White House official said, and he shouldn’t have had to learn of them through the media.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb In other words, Rumsfeld received his slap on the wrist, not for the mistreatment of the prisoners, but for the mistreatment of the president, whose political handlers and spin doctors were caught off guard when CBS broadcast its first report on the Abu Ghraib torture last week.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tLa question centrale reste pos\u00e9e : sur quoi tout cela d\u00e9boucherait-il \u00e9ventuellement ? Sur une d\u00e9mission de Rumsfeld ? Improbable, \u00e0 moins d’une nouvelle aggravation de la situation (si c’est possible), d’une nouvelle crise amenant une situation impr\u00e9vue. Sur un retrait d’Irak ? Improbable encore, tant tout est paralys\u00e9 en marge des \u00e9lections pr\u00e9sidentielles, dans l’espoir qu’une certaine constance d’apparence dans la situation irakienne va influencer favorablement l’\u00e9lectorat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’establishment<\/em> panique, l’administration GW est paralys\u00e9e, la situation est hors de contr\u00f4le et court de crise en crise, toutes plus inattendues les unes que les autres. C’est le constat qu’on peut faire, assorti de celui-ci, encore plus d\u00e9primant : il n’y a pas d’alternative. (Kerry s’av\u00e8re effectivement n’en \u00eatre pas une, et l’on voit mal ce qui changerait si, demain, il \u00e9tait \u00e9lu.) Le r\u00e9gime washingtonien en crise est arc-bout\u00e9 sur ses positions, avec comme seule id\u00e9e celle de tenir, mais tenir jusqu’\u00e0 quand et pour quoi faire ? Jusqu’\u00e0 la prochaine crise ? Cette absence de perspective ajout\u00e9e \u00e0 l’absence de contr\u00f4le de la situation sont l’aspect le plus remarquable de la situation actuelle, celui qui interdit toute prospective s\u00e9rieuse et laisse ouverte la possibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les surprises.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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