White House aides have said they consider the Lebanon crisis to be a leadership moment’ for Mr Bush and an opportunity to proceed with his post-September 11 plan to reshape the Middle East by building Sunni Arab opposition to Shi’a terrorism. Yesterday Mr Bush cited the role of Iran and Syria in providing help to Hezbollah. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tThe question is whether this astonishing statement is the product of bad writing, the slack-jawed stupidity of the Telegraph’s Washington correspondent, or a deliberate Eastasia\/Eurasia switch by our fun-loving Orwellians in the Cheney administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb If it’s just bad writing or stupidity if the phrase building Sunni Arab opposition to Shi’a terrorism doesn’t actually modify post-September 11 plan, but instead is just another way of pretending that Shrub is capable of the kind of leadership that has its moments, then the sentence is only unintentionally hysterical. However, given the current situation on the ground (all 18 zillion square miles of it) it may well be precisely the lie it appears to be, to wit: that fighting Shi’a terrorism was the point of Shrub’s post-9\/11 master plan all along.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Either way, it boggles the mind that anyone who isn’t a certified graduate of the Minitrue School for Outer Party Members could write an English sentence even suggesting such a thing. Is that why America crushed the most powerful Sunni regime in the neighborhood? Is that why Democracy Boy cheered as an Iran-friendly government took power in Baghdad? Does it explain why the Iraqi Interior Ministry was turned over to the tender mercies of an Iranian-backed militia movement?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb This is the closest thing I’ve seen yet to a flat-out admission that the Iraq War was a disastrous strategic mistake. Or conversely, if you’re a true Orwell disciple, it’s simply another meaningless switch in an endless war whose real purpose isn’t to defeat the enemy, but to keep the prols docile and the ruling party firmly in power in this country. You can take your pick, I guess.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 24 juillet 2006 \u00e0 15H16<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sans doute le Daily Telegraph, dans son z\u00e8le \u00e0 regarder Washington avec les yeux de Rita Hayworth regardant Orson Welles (au d\u00e9but), a-t-il trouv\u00e9 la formule. Il nous signale en effet que la Maison-Blanche vit, rien que \u00e7a, a leadership moment. A cause du Liban. Voici le passage de l’article qui nous fait croire effectivement… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5673,5674,5627,4199],"class_list":["post-67790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-billmon","tag-leadership","tag-moment","tag-telegraph"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}