A vote to send tremors around the world<\/em>\u00bb , peut \u00eatre compar\u00e9 \u00e0 l’Almanach Vermot du jour parce qu’il rassemble, avec une minutie remarquable, avec un z\u00e8le flaubertesque, tous les lieux communs parisiens des Bouvard & P\u00e9cuchet postmodernes sur la situation am\u00e9ricaniste et sur la signification et les cons\u00e9quences des \u00e9lections.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSauf peut-\u00eatre le bondissant Alexandre Adler, il est difficile de trouver une plume parisienne assez avis\u00e9e pour \u00e9crire ceci, qui ressuscite le r\u00eave d’une union transatlantique pour le meilleur bien plus que pour le pire, car il est temps, enfin, que les pays europ\u00e9ens, mettent un terme \u00e0 leur politique stupidement et autistement anti-am\u00e9ricaniste :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab Conversely, a Democratic majority in the Senate and the House, even if it changes nothing about the depth of anti-American feeling in Europe, will deprive governments on the Continent of their providential alibi for inaction and their spirit of appeasement: the scarecrow of Bush’s hubris. They will be obliged or it will contribute to their obligation to take a more active part in the global battle against Islamofascism that is the challenge of our times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne knows that in France, for example, the temptation exists to suspend or reduce co-operation on the ground with the forces fighting terrorism a collaboration that, since the days after September 11, has gone on continuously. However, a stinging defeat of the Bush team at the polls would not easily justify such a decision across the Atlantic. The French President, faced by an American government that represents a wider spectrum of opinion, would be hard put to explain the withdrawal of French commandos from Afghanistan. In other words, a White House forced to engage in as the Democrats call for a form of multilateralism would put Europe’s back against the wall more forcefully than its previous boasts, calls for crusades or born-again Christian sermons about the End Times.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCar BHL nous annonce qu’une victoire d\u00e9mocrate sera une victoire de la d\u00e9mocratie, qu’elle engagera l’Am\u00e9rique partout o\u00f9 la d\u00e9mocratie est contest\u00e9e dans le monde, dans le combat contre le r\u00e9chauffement climatique et contre l’islamo-fascisme, qui ont partie li\u00e9e, finalement, comme la CIA est en train de le d\u00e9couvrir gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ses satellites et \u00e0 ses syst\u00e8mes anti-voitures-suicides. Enfin, le Pr\u00e9sident sera oblig\u00e9 de voir la lumi\u00e8re : \u00abThen, I believe, the President will suddenly discover that the notion of enemy combatants is unconstitutional and will close the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What a victory for democracy!<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe 7 novembre dissipera le vilain r\u00eave qui emp\u00eache les petits princes de dormir. Tout le monde sera beau et gentil. La b\u00eate immonde de la Maison-Blanche sera enfin r\u00e9duite. (\u00abThe sustained direction of the past 40 years of American history toward the victories of civil rights, the democratisation of the South, the loosening of moral strictures demonstrates that the Bush phenomenon is above all a last stand, the ultimate and terrible outburst of a beast that knows it is wounded and is gambling it all.<\/em>\u00bb) Les corrompus seront chass\u00e9s du temple avec grandes pertes et vertueux fracas. (\u00abOil lobby or no, President Bush will not be able to feign to be unaware that Americans also have a stake in the battle for the survival of the planet on which we all depend.<\/em>\u00bb) Les gentils d\u00e9mocrates seront \u00e0 nouveau en service. Le soleil percera la brume pollu\u00e9e des vilaines raffineries. Les oiseaux chanteront \u00e0 nouveau. (\u00abThe reasons to hope largely overtake the grounds for worry.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCar voyez-vous, r\u00e9v\u00e9lation exclusive l’Am\u00e9rique est curieuse et admirable. Elle vote sur des v\u00e9tilles provinciales (\u00abThe paradox of American democracy and especially of these midterm elections: both are local, even provincial<\/em>\u00bb) et elle secoue le monde assoupi qui ne se doute de rien (\u00ab Yet these are the only elections of truly global importance in the world<\/em>\u00bb). En un mot qui est une formule magique qui a le sens de la formule : \u00ab In short: small causes, grand effects. Petty battles, colossal butterfly effect.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tOn ne la fait pas au petit prince de Tocqueville. Lui, il a vu venir le grand \u00e9branlement du monde. Somme toute, on comprend le Times<\/em> d’avoir publi\u00e9 une si attachante comptine. Elle r\u00e9sonne et raisonne comme une berceuse d\u00e9mocratique pour les petits princes m\u00e9ritants. Le monde est beau, la vie est belle. Rendez-vous au Flore<\/em> comme on a dit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 7 novembre 2006 \u00e0 05H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quelle mouche hexagonale et parisienne a piqu\u00e9 le s\u00e9rieux et britannique Times de Londres de demander \u00e0 Bernard-Henri Levy, dit BHL, de commenter les \u00e9lections du 7 novembre aux USA ? Peut-\u00eatre parce qu’ils ont confondu BHL (American Vertigo) avec Henry Miller (Air Conditionned Nightmare) ou avec Jack Kerouac (On the Road)? Peut-\u00eatre parce que… <\/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":[6103,3417,3009,6102,5449,2852],"class_list":["post-68177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-6103","tag-bhl","tag-democrates","tag-germanopratin","tag-novembre","tag-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68177","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=68177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}