Is this how the great republic fights and wins its wars?<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSon interpr\u00e9tation historique va loin, au-del\u00e0 des oc\u00e9ans, puisqu’il a choisi le titre de : \u00abAmerican Dien Bien Phu?<\/em>\u00bb Sa comparaison avec la IV\u00e8me R\u00e9publique et la chute de l’Indochine fran\u00e7aise est \u00e0 la fois imag\u00e9e, approximative, furieuse et pourtant avec quelque chose de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 pour ce qui concerne le climat des choses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tParmi les r\u00e9f\u00e9rences qui alimentent sa fureur, le r\u00e9cent State of Denial<\/em> de Bob Woodward :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAmong the more important revelations, however, is an unstated one. So badly are things going in Iraq that men who once had influence over U.S. war policy feel compelled to cut loose of that policy and of the policymakers: Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice. This book exposes their fear that America may be losing the war and their determination to swim clear of culpability before the ship goes down.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOf significant interest is the comment of Gen. Abizaid, Centcom commander, to two friends from Vietnam days: \u00a0\u00bbWe’ve got to get the (expletive) out of here,\u00a0\u00bb meaning out of Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAsked by his friends about his victory strategy, Abizaid replied, That’s not my job. A jolting comment indeed from the general who is to lead us to victory.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUnlike history, Woodward’s books are fast-paced, frothy reads that reward his sources by heroizing them and paint those who decline to confess to Bob as obtuse, oblivious to what’s going on. In earlier books, when things appeared to be going well in Iraq and Afghanistan, this White House collaborated, and was rewarded. Almost all emerged as sagacious and strong. This time, Woodward met with closed doors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUnderstandably, for things are not going well in Afghanistan or Iraq, though we do not need another book to tell us that. The question that needs answering is: What do we do now?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbFrance’s defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina lead to a second war of national liberation in Algeria, the fall of the Fourth Republic and the call for Gen. de Gaulle to assume power. The general did, and he rang down the curtain on the French Empire.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAre we facing an American Dien Bien Phu?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tNon, pas celle-l\u00e0 En fait, la bonne question que Buchanan aurait d\u00fb poser est plut\u00f4t celle-ci : avons-nous un g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle en r\u00e9serve? Et, au-del\u00e0, pour poursuivre le sujet et en arriver \u00e0 l’essentiel : l’Am\u00e9rique est-elle capable de subir un Dien Bien-phu sans tr\u00e9passer elle-m\u00eame? La question n’est pas celle de la d\u00e9faite mais de la capacit\u00e9 de supporter la d\u00e9faite. Pour la France, la r\u00e9ponse a \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9e au long des si\u00e8cles de son Histoire. Pour l’Am\u00e9rique, la question est pleine d’une angoisse terrible et douloureuse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 7 octobre 2006 \u00e0 12H31<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patrick Buchanan, r\u00e9publicain de toujours, pal\u00e9o-conservateur anti-guerre mais pro-am\u00e9ricaniste, d\u00e9fenseur de la Grande R\u00e9publique et pourfendeur du soi-disant Empire am\u00e9ricaniste, Buchanan, donc, est rendu fou de col\u00e8re par le climat washingtonien et sa d\u00e9cadence acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e. \u00abQuel spectacle l’Am\u00e9rique en guerre montre au monde !\u00bb, s’exclame-t-il dans une de ses plus r\u00e9centes (le 3 octobre) chroniques.… <\/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":[5823,3335,2631,5822,2685,4029],"class_list":["post-68075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bien-phu","tag-buchanan","tag-de","tag-dien","tag-gaulle","tag-republique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68075","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=68075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}