Si l’on voulait une indication s\u00e9rieuse du tr\u00e8s grave malaise qui est en train de gagner les rangs des militaires am\u00e9ricains, on l’a avec cette r\u00e9action du pr\u00e9sident du JSC (le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Marine Corps Peter Pace) \u00e0 la suite d’une tribune<\/a> (le 9 avril) du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Gregory Newbold (r\u00e9cemment retir\u00e9) dans Time Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tC’est une querelle de famille, et de quelle prestigieuse famille! Pace et Newbold sont tous deux des g\u00e9n\u00e9raux des Marines. La grande nouveaut\u00e9 apport\u00e9e par Newbold, c’est qu’il ne recommande rien moins que la r\u00e9volte : les militaires doivent parler, ils doivent dire ce qu’ils pensent. Pace s’exclame : \u00ab We had then, and have now, every opportunity to speak our minds. And if we do not, shame on us, because the opportunity is there. It is elicited from us. And we’re expected to.<\/em> \u00bb Et \u00e0 propos du plan de guerre contre l’Irak, que Newbold et d’autres critiquent: \u00ab And the plan that was executed was developed by military officers, presented by military officers, questioned by civilians as they should, revamped by military officers and blessed by the senior military leadership.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUne d\u00e9p\u00eache<\/a> AFP, qui reprend cet \u00e9change \u00e0 distance signale \u00e9galement le malaise grandissant de l’establishment<\/em> militaire. A c\u00f4t\u00e9 de Newbold, qui demande le d\u00e9part de Rumsfeld, on trouve deux autres ex-g\u00e9n\u00e9raux demandant la m\u00eame mesure : Eaton et Zunni. AFP note : \u00ab While criticism from retired military officers is not new, the latest has carried greater weight because of the roles the generals played. Newbold was the operations director of the Joint Staff through the war in Afghanistan before retiring in September 2002, partly in opposition to what he said he saw as the hijacking of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to invade Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Retired Major General Paul Eaton, who called for Rumsfeld’s resignation in a New York Times opinion piece last month, was in charge of training Iraqi security forces in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Retired General Anthony Zinni, an early critic of the US invasion who has criticized Rumsfeld in recent television interviews, served as commander of US forces in the Gulf during the Clinton administration, and as a Middle East envoy under President George W. Bush.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tA ce malaise, on ajoutera celui qu’ont caus\u00e9 certaines r\u00e9v\u00e9lations de Seymour Hersh<\/a>, notamment sur la possibilit\u00e9 d’emploi d’armes nucl\u00e9aires tactiques contre l’Iran et la pr\u00e9cision que certains g\u00e9n\u00e9raux auraient menac\u00e9 de d\u00e9missionner si une telle option \u00e9tait poursuivie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n