The Nation<\/a> avance l’hypoth\u00e8se audacieuse mais s\u00e9duisante qu’il s’agit en fait d’une base permanente au cur de la capitale de l’Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab This gigantic complex does not square with the repeated assertions by the people who run the American government that the United States will not stay in the country after Iraq becomes a stand-alone, democratic entity. An embassy in which 8,000 people labor, along with the however many thousand military personnnel necessary to defend them, is not a diplomatic outpost. It is a base. A permanent base.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb So it turns out that the plan, if that is the right word for the haphazard, faith-based, fact-free and data-scarce decision-making that has been the one constant in this adventure, is to stay in Baghdad and run the country. This is beyond lunacy.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb There are these 8,000 Americans holed up in a private city, who do not dare to leave their fortified luxury bunker for fear of being killed or kidnapped and tortured if caught outside their fortified walls, and who are trying to run the country by giving orders to the Iraqi government, which is also operating out of the Green Zone, that vast fortified place isolated from the people of the country.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Democrats demanding an exit strategy from Iraq are routinely derided by the Bush Administration as cowards who cut and run. But if this Embassy plan is not a form of cut and run, what is it? Instead of cutting and making a run for Kuwait, they intend to cut and run into what amounts to the world’s largest bunker, a capacious rat hole where they can wait in safety until all the Iraqis have killed one another or all factions unite, march on this air-conditioned citadel and slit the throats of its irrelevant inhabitants.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl est vrai que la chose est du domaine de l’hallucination, avec tous les exc\u00e8s am\u00e9ricanistes pouss\u00e9s jusqu’\u00e0 l’exc\u00e8s de la caricature: l’enfermement sur soi, la rupture totale avec les conditions naturelles et sociales de l’environnement, l’illusion du contr\u00f4le centralis\u00e9, le m\u00e9pris pour les autochtones (c’est-\u00e0-dire les non-am\u00e9ricanistes, c’est-\u00e0-dire les barbares), tout y est. D’une certaine fa\u00e7on, peut-\u00eatre les Am\u00e9ricains sont-ils en train de se construire un super-9\/11 en Irak. Quand tout sera rentr\u00e9 dans l’ordre, quand les Am\u00e9ricains seront install\u00e9s dans leur 51\u00e8me \u00c9tat au cur de Bagdad, peut-\u00eatre l’Irak, au lieu de se d\u00e9chirer, se r\u00e9unira autour de ce lieu au son d’une seule consigne : taper sur le monstre au cur de Bagdad. Jusqu’au jour o\u00f9 un avion-suicide fera l’affaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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