C’est un excellent article que publie Derrick Z. Jackson, dans The International Herald Tribune \u00e0 partir du Boston Globe<\/a>. Il nous rapporte cette anecdote sur l’\u00e9tat d’esprit de Westmoreland (g\u00e9n\u00e9ral commandant les forces US au Vi\u00eat-nam jusqu’en 1969), qu’il rapproche de la situation actuelle (les Irakiens \u00e0 la place des Vietnamiens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab None of the many newspaper obituaries about General William Westmoreland exhumed one of the most important things he ever said: The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Westmoreland said that in the Oscar-winning 1974 Vietnam documentary Hearts and Minds.’ The quote so stunned director Peter Davis that he gave Westmoreland a chance to clean it up. In a 1997 guest letter to The Washington Post in response to criticism that he cherry-picked the quote to push his antiwar agenda, Davis said, "\u00b1When we filmed the interview, Westmoreland paused after making that statement, yelled Cut!’ and said he wanted a retake because that wasn’t how he meant to express himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb "In the second take, the general began saying exactly the same thing but we ran out of film. We then gave him a third chance to amend his remarks much the way Ted Koppel gave Al Campanis of the Los Angeles Dodgers a chance to change what he was saying about nonwhite baseball players lacking the necessities’ to be managers and Westmoreland repeated the statement about the Oriental.’ I used the third take, since the statement was most complete.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tJackson explique ainsi, par ce m\u00e9pris de la vie des non-Am\u00e9ricains, la facilit\u00e9 avec laquelle les Am\u00e9ricains agirent dans le sens de la destruction au Vi\u00eat-nam. Il la compare \u00e0 leur comportement actuel en Irak, la similitude va de soi. Ces rappels opportuns expliquent bien des comportements. En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, la critique am\u00e9ricaniste les r\u00e9sume par le mot racisme, c\u00e9dant \u00e9videmment au conformisme des \u00e9tiquettes. Le racisme est une d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence agressive ou parano\u00efaque d’une situation qui est loin d’\u00eatre critiquable en soi, qui est le sens de l’identit\u00e9 et le sens de la diff\u00e9rence. Ce qui caract\u00e9rise le comportement de Westmoreland et des autres, qui remonte aux origines de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, qui trouve certaines explications lumineuses comme celle de Tocqueville<\/a>, c’est le supr\u00e9matisme et non le racisme. Le supr\u00e9matisme implique la notion de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 de sa propre identit\u00e9, c’est-\u00e0-dire la sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 \u00e0 la place de la diff\u00e9rence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 22 juillet 2005 \u00e0 13H15<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C’est un excellent article que publie Derrick Z. Jackson, dans The International Herald Tribune \u00e0 partir du Boston Globe. 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