{"id":66128,"date":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/14\/comment-le-systeme-fonctionne-le-marine-james-black-miller-marlboro-man-a-falloujah\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"comment-le-systeme-fonctionne-le-marine-james-black-miller-marlboro-man-a-falloujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/14\/comment-le-systeme-fonctionne-le-marine-james-black-miller-marlboro-man-a-falloujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment le syst\u00e8me fonctionne : le Marine James Black Miller, \u201cMarlboro Man\u201d \u00e0 Falloujah<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment le syst\u00e8me fonctionne : le Marine James Black Miller, Marlboro Man \u00e0 Falloujah<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t14 novembre 2004 L’aventure t\u00e9moigne du fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme : une image, une histoire, une publicit\u00e9, sans doute des ventes colossales \u00e0 la cl\u00e9. Demain, il est tr\u00e8s probable que les cigarettes Marlboro remplaceront, s’il n’y a pas d’obstacle juridique ou de r\u00e9ticences, leur traditionnel cow boy<\/em> \u00e0 cheval par la photographie d\u00e9sormais fameuse du caporal James Blake Miller, 20 ans, du Corps des Marines, natif du Kentucky (\u00c9tat bleu ou bushiste s’il en est). Avec un peu de chance et d’habilet\u00e9, fumer une cigarette pourrait devenir un acte patriotique, et la campagne terroriste de l’interdiction de fumer aux USA remplac\u00e9e par un retour en arri\u00e8re, toujours au nom du patriotisme, o\u00f9 le fait de fumer pourrait devenir une obligation \u00e9galement r\u00e9clam\u00e9e par un conformisme terroriste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa photo en portrait de Miller, cigarette au bec, portant son casque et des traces de la peinture de camouflage sur le visage, sale et glorieux, \u00e9puis\u00e9, approximativement ras\u00e9 et avec quelques \u00e9gratignures, a paru dans plus de cent quotidiens am\u00e9ricains mercredi dernier. C’est une photo qui d\u00e9crit l’intensit\u00e9 et la fatigue de la bataille, en m\u00eame temps que l’humanit\u00e9 confront\u00e9e \u00e0 ces rudes conditions. Miller est sur la voie de devenir un h\u00e9ros, et si un homme qui fume trois paquets par jour est un h\u00e9ros, fumer est-il si mauvais qu’on dit ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici la pr\u00e9sentation de cette affaire qui m\u00e9lange selon une formule id\u00e9alement am\u00e9ricaniste mercantilisme et patriotisme, par le Seattle Times du 13 novembre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Miller is the young man whose gritty, war-hardened portrait, shot by Luis Sinco, a Los Angeles Times photographer, appeared Wednesday in more than 100 U.S. newspapers, including The Seattle Times. In the full-frame photo, taken after more than 12 hours of nearly nonstop deadly combat, Miller’s camouflage war paint is smudged. He sports a bloody nick on his nose. His helmet and chin strap frame a weary expression that seems to convey the timeless fatigue of battle. And there is the cigarette, of course, drooping from the right side of his mouth in a jaunty manner that Humphrey Bogart would have approved of. Wispy smoke drifts off to his left.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The image has quickly moved into the realm of the iconic.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb More than 100 newspapers printed it, although it took the New York Post to sum it up in a front-page headline: \u00a0\u00bbMarlboro Men Kick Butt in Fallujah.\u00a0\u00bb The fact that Miller’s name was not included in the caption material only seemed to enhance its punch.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The Los Angeles Times and other publications have received scores of e-mails wanting to know about this mysterious figure. Many women, in particular, have inquired about how to contact him. \u00a0\u00bbThe photo captures his weariness, yet his eyes hold the spirit of the hunter and the hunted,\u00a0\u00bb wrote one e-mailing admirer. \u00a0\u00bbHis gaze is warm but deadly. I want to send a letter.\u00a0\u00bb Maybe it’s about America striking back at a perceived enemy, or maybe it’s just the sense of one young man putting his life on the line halfway across the globe.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tLes chefs de Miller sont aux anges. L’arm\u00e9e est aujourd’hui compl\u00e8tement adapt\u00e9e et int\u00e9gr\u00e9e au circuit mercantile et aux relations publiques qui vont avec, et elle sait faire bon usage de ses vertus suppos\u00e9es de courage et de patriotisme. \u00ab Whatever the case, the photo seems to have struck a chord, and top Marine brass are thrilled. Lt. Gen. John. Sattler, commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force, dropped in on Charlie Company yesterday to laud the Marlboro Men. \u00a0\u00bbThat’s a great picture,\u00a0\u00bb echoed Col. Craig Tucker, who heads the regimental combat team that includes Miller’s battalion. \u00a0\u00bbWe’re having one blown up and sent over to the unit.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est un des exemples les plus parfaits du fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me. Les vertus g\u00e9n\u00e9rales demand\u00e9es aux citoyens prennent un \u00e9clat extraordinaire d\u00e8s lors qu’elles se transcrivent en images (au sens propre du mot) au potentiel publicitaire \u00e9vident, et aux perspectives commerciales non moins exceptionnelles. Le caporal Miller, s’il n’est pas trop niais, peut tirer un avantage juteux et quelques contrats mirifiques aux States ; Hollywood pourrait \u00eatre int\u00e9ress\u00e9 et Miller devenir une star<\/em> d’une super-production retra\u00e7ant sa bataille de Falloujah. De ce point de vue, la bataille de Falloujah est une victoire-\u00e9clair pour le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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