Il est rare de lire un commentaire de l’intensit\u00e9 de celui de Simon Jenkins sur la situation en Irak et sur la position britannique. Mais la raret\u00e9 est aujourd’hui monnaie courante, aussi l’article de Jenkins ne nous \u00e9tonne pas m\u00eame s’il reste particuli\u00e8rement instructif \u00e0 lire. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tJenkins d\u00e9crit, aujourd’hui<\/a> dans le Guardian<\/em> la situation apocalyptique de l’Irak. Il d\u00e9crit une Am\u00e9rique en train de prendre conscience de cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9 et soudain<\/a> plong\u00e9e dans la fi\u00e8vre d’un d\u00e9bat sur la catastrophe irakienne : \u00abAmerica has finally taken on the grim reality of Iraq The US is radically rethinking its exit strategy<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tJenkins ne peut s’emp\u00eacher d’une certaine admiration pour ce qu’il juge \u00eatre un syst\u00e8me capable de s’\u00e9lancer soudain dans une telle entreprise de mise en cause de lui-m\u00eame et d’auto-critique (\u00abFor all the abuse which Europeans regularly heap on the American political process, it has one strength, its capacity for course-correction.<\/em>\u00bb). On restera r\u00e9serv\u00e9 sur ce jugement. L’auto-critique n’est pas une sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9 US, loin de l\u00e0, et encore faut-il voir de quelle auto-critique il s’agit. Le processus observ\u00e9 par Jenkins est pour l’instant \u00e0 ses d\u00e9buts et on ne sait ni ce qu’il en adviendra, ni ce qu’il pourra donner dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Ce n’est pas la premi\u00e8re fois qu’une telle fi\u00e8vre saisit Washington depuis 2003 et les effets ont \u00e9t\u00e9 nuls jusqu’ici, sinon de pr\u00e9sider \u00e0 une aggravation suppl\u00e9mentaire de la situation en Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais ce qui motive surtout l’appr\u00e9ciation de Jenkins, c’est le contraste de la situation US avec celle du Royaume-Uni sur cette question. Jenkins fustige l’attitude zombie-like<\/em> du monde politique britannique devant la situation irakienne ; un Royaume-Uni qui attend d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment les consignes du patron comme s’il \u00e9tait fig\u00e9 dans le d\u00e9sert des Tartares, qui est sans r\u00e9action, sans imagination, sans rien. Deux paragraphes qui s’adressent \u00e0 la fiert\u00e9 et \u00e0 la grandeur disparues du Royaume-Uni.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhat is humiliating for Britons is that not a whisper of such lateral thinking can be heard from the government. Downing Street is intellectually numb, like a forgotten outpost of a crumbling Roman empire. It can see the barbarians at the gates yet it dare not respond as it knows it should because no new instructions have arrived from Rome. As for parliament, the opposition, academics, thinktanks and most of the media, a zombie-like inertia is all. Last week’s row over controversial remarks by the army chief, Sir Richard Dannatt, was concerned not with what he said but whether he should have said it. Every one is waiting for the US to move.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBlair’s last comment on Iraq was that any withdrawal would be craven surrender and would endanger British security. This is mad. Even Bush can admit to be open to new ideas on Iraq. Blair has clearly not heard of Baker’s report. Perhaps he should hurry to Washington for new instructions from the boss.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 18 octobre 2006 \u00e0 04H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il est rare de lire un commentaire de l’intensit\u00e9 de celui de Simon Jenkins sur la situation en Irak et sur la position britannique. Mais la raret\u00e9 est aujourd’hui monnaie courante, aussi l’article de Jenkins ne nous \u00e9tonne pas m\u00eame s’il reste particuli\u00e8rement instructif \u00e0 lire. 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