une interview<\/a> de la nouvelle consul des USA \u00e0 Edinburgh, Lisa Vickers. Elle s’interroge sur les r\u00e9elles possibilit\u00e9s d’ind\u00e9pendance de l’Ecosse, notamment \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de la tr\u00e8s possible victoire du parti ind\u00e9pendantiste SNP aux \u00e9lections de l’ann\u00e9e prochaine, et de son intention de pr\u00e9senter un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum sur l’ind\u00e9pendance de l’Ecosse. Vickers discute la proc\u00e9dure, la l\u00e9galit\u00e9 du processus, l’aspect bien peu judicieux de cette d\u00e9marche. Bref, elle parle de tout et encore plus comme si elle repr\u00e9sentait le gouvernement britannique ou, m\u00eame, la puissance occupante comme les USA en Irak. Les ind\u00e9pendantistes n’appr\u00e9cient pas et leur leader Alex Salmond a g\u00e9n\u00e9reusement \u00e9voqu\u00e9 son inexp\u00e9rience :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abI am sure the US consul doesn’t have to be reminded of diplomatic protocol. It’s a curious position to put so much stress on your own country’s self- determination, and not to think it is important for other people. Maybe it’s time for her to get out of the cocktail party circuit and around the country.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe plus remarquable dans l’intervention de Vickers est certainement les commentaires consacr\u00e9s aux intentions du SNP de quitter l’OTAN si l’ind\u00e9pendance de l’Ecosse \u00e9tait vot\u00e9e. Cela para\u00eet aux yeux des Am\u00e9ricains quelque chose d’absolument monstrueux, un de ces sacril\u00e8ges qui vous attirent la foudre absolument d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9e du Seigneur. La vigueur de la r\u00e9action est en elle-m\u00eame d’un certain int\u00e9r\u00eat. Il semble bien qu’il y ait quelque part un article cach\u00e9 du r\u00e8glement qui, simplement, vous interdit<\/strong> de quitter l’OTAN, quelque partie de l’Organisation que ce soit et de quelque fa\u00e7on que ce soit, ce dont n’avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 avis\u00e9 de Gaulle, semble-t-il, chose que Vickers, \u00e0 son tour, semble ignorer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab However, her most pointed criticisms were reserved for the SNP’s defence policy, which is for an independent Scotland not to be a member of Nato.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe US consul said: I don’t think it’s nearly that simple. I don’t think you just wake up one morning and say we are going to pull out of Nato’. It doesn’t work like that. There are just so many different questions that would have to be answered. I don’t believe there are any countries that have pulled out of Nato.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbVickers also claimed Alex Salmond’s anti-Nato stance may not be set in stone. She said: No good politician is going to tell you this is absolutely what we are going to do’. They are going to tell you that this may be what we would like to do, if it seems the prudent thing to do’.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 7 novembre 2006 \u00e0 15H46<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Am\u00e9ricains continuent leur grande campagne de re-stabilisation et de remise en ordre g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, avec l’habilet\u00e9 redoutable qui les caract\u00e9rise, la main de velours dans un gant de fer, le sens des nuances et de la souverainet\u00e9 d’autrui. R\u00e9sultat : l’Ecosse est avertie. Si les projets d’attaque contre l’Iran laissent un cr\u00e9neau, l’Ecosse y aura… <\/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":[6107,6105,4345,2773,584,2746,6106],"class_list":["post-68180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-consul","tag-ecosse","tag-independance","tag-iran","tag-otan","tag-souverainete","tag-vickers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68180","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=68180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}