Nous avons retrouv\u00e9 un article pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent de Charles Gati, concernant l’insurrection de Budapest de 1956 et le r\u00f4le des Am\u00e9ricains dans cette affaire. Gati y demandait, avant la visite de GW Bush en Hongrie, que Washington r\u00e9tablisse la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 concernant l’attitude US durant la crise. Ce ne sont pas des choses (reconna\u00eetre un tort pass\u00e9) qui se font \u00e0 Washington. Bush est pass\u00e9 en Hongrie et l’Histoire officielle est rest\u00e9e en place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tCet article<\/a>, publi\u00e9 le 21 juin 2006 dans le Washington Post<\/em>, introduit d\u00e9j\u00e0 nombre d’\u00e9l\u00e9ments qu’on retrouve dans l’article de l’International Herald Tribune<\/a> que nous utilisons dans notre commentaire de ce jour<\/a> sur le 50\u00e8me anniversaire de Budapest-1956. Certains autres passages contiennent des d\u00e9tails suppl\u00e9mentaires.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNous reprenons notamment le passage ci-dessous, qui donne quelques pr\u00e9cisions sur la position des USA \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, sur leur degr\u00e9 de pr\u00e9paration, sur leurs capacit\u00e9s de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la crise. Litanie des m\u00eames erreurs, des m\u00eames faux jugements, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe United States, according to the usual version of what happened, could not help the Hungarians because any action would have triggered a military confrontation with Moscow. This explanation misses the point: There were actions short of war that Washington might have taken. It could certainly have urged the Hungarians to temporize and pursue limited, evolutionary goals. It could have taken the issue to the United Nations before, and not after, the Soviet crackdown. In an imaginative move toward post-Stalin detente, it could have proposed immediate talks about withdrawing American forces from a small Western European country in exchange for Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbInstead, Washington offered only hope, no help. "Poor fellows, poor fellows," President Dwight Eisenhower said privately as he campaigned for reelection. "I wish there were some way of helping them."<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWashington’s hands-off stance had nothing to do with the concurrent Suez crisis either. With Suez or without it, the United States had no means available to aid, let alone "liberate," Hungary. For despite all the talk about "liberation" since 1952, neither the National Security Council nor the State Department had devised plans for diplomatic or any other form of assistance. Nor was the CIA ready. When I received permission to study the agency’s operational files for my book "Failed Illusions," to be published in September, I was stunned to learn that the CIA had but one official operating in Hungary in 1956. In Austria, as first reported by Evan Thomas a few years ago, the CIA did not have a single Hungarian-speaking agent. The handful of emigres trained for behind-the-lines activity were let go in 1953.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 9 ocobre 2006 \u00e0 14H27<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nous avons retrouv\u00e9 un article pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent de Charles Gati, concernant l’insurrection de Budapest de 1956 et le r\u00f4le des Am\u00e9ricains dans cette affaire. Gati y demandait, avant la visite de GW Bush en Hongrie, que Washington r\u00e9tablisse la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 concernant l’attitude US durant la crise. Ce ne sont pas des choses (reconna\u00eetre un tort pass\u00e9)… <\/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":[2741,5907,3104,2744,5991,2804],"class_list":["post-68083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-2741","tag-budapest","tag-cia","tag-eisenhower","tag-gati","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083","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=68083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}