{"id":68224,"date":"2006-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/22\/george-bush-nous-en-dit-beaucoup-sur-george-bush-et-sur-lamerique\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"george-bush-nous-en-dit-beaucoup-sur-george-bush-et-sur-lamerique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/22\/george-bush-nous-en-dit-beaucoup-sur-george-bush-et-sur-lamerique\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bush nous en dit beaucoup sur George Bush (et sur l’Am\u00e9rique)"},"content":{"rendered":"

D’abord il y a ceci, qui nous en dit long: \u00abBush said he was surprised by the audience’s criticism of his son.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCela se passait hier \u00e0 Abou Dhabi, chez les amis du Golfe. George Bush the elder<\/em>, 82 ans, donnait une conf\u00e9rence amicale, chez des vieux amis, chez ceux qu’il consid\u00e8re comme des vieux amis, entre p\u00e9troliers, entre Texans et hommes du Golfe, entre Am\u00e9ricains et Arabes mod\u00e9r\u00e9s, entre vieux complices<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn texte d’AP sur cette conf\u00e9rence est notamment repris par le San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> et l’International Herald Tribune<\/a>: \u00abThe oil-rich Persian Gulf used to be safe territory for former President Bush, who brought Arab leaders together in a coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s troops from Kuwait in 1991. But gratitude for the elder Bush, who served as president from 1989-93, was overshadowed at the conference by hostility toward his son, whose invasion of Iraq and support for Israel are deeply unpopular in the region.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBush-p\u00e8re fut stup\u00e9fait par des phrases telles que celle-ci, dite par une femme dans l’assistance : \u00abWe do not respect your son. We do not respect what he’s doing all over the world.<\/em>\u00bb Bush-p\u00e8re d\u00e9fendit son fils (\u00abMy son is an honest man<\/em>\u00bb), jusqu’\u00e0 dire qu’il croit que les choses s’arrangeront en Irak : \u00ab This son is not going to back away. He’s not going to change his view because some poll says this or some poll says that, or some heartfelt comments from the lady who feels deeply in her heart about something. You can’t be president of the United States and conduct yourself if you’re going to cut and run. This is going to work out in Iraq. I understand the anxiety. It’s not easy.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBush-p\u00e8re dut m\u00eame se battre pour l’Am\u00e9rique, choqu\u00e9 par une intervention d’un \u00e9tudiant accusant son pays de ne faire la guerre que pour ouvrir les march\u00e9s ext\u00e9rieurs aux compagnies US : \u00abI think that’s weird and it’s nuts. To suggest that everything we do is because we’re hungry for money, I think that’s crazy. I think you need to go back to school.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEn un mot, ce fut un bel exercice d’inculpabilit\u00e9<\/a>, si propre \u00e0 la psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste. Il nous para\u00eet en effet inappropri\u00e9 de voir quelque duplicit\u00e9 que ce soit chez Bush-p\u00e8re. Son comportement, ses r\u00e9actions paraissent au contraire tr\u00e8s sinc\u00e8res. De ces interventions diverses, nous pouvons tirer quelques hypoth\u00e8ses en consid\u00e9rant que Bush-p\u00e8re est tr\u00e8s repr\u00e9sentatif de l’opinion de la frange mod\u00e9r\u00e9e de l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t A c\u00f4t\u00e9 du sentiment d’une catastrophe en Irak, il subsiste la certitude psychologique que l’Am\u00e9rique n’est pas vraiment responsable de cela. Il y a quelque chose d’incompr\u00e9hensible pour Washington et l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien (comme l’\u00e9crit William Pfaff : \u00ab The existing policy is a failure, yet nothing can be changed because no one can imagine a valid alternative. American intentions and actions have, it is held, been correct, their goals irreproachable. If anyone is to blame it is the Iraqis, who failed to seize the wonderful opportunity the United States offered them.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t GW n’est pas vraiment \u00e0 critiquer. Il est honn\u00eate, il fait son boulot qui est difficile. (S’il y a un coupable, peut-\u00eatre est-ce Rumsfeld, dont James Baker a eu personnellement la t\u00eate.) Cette position implique que les pressions de l’ISG de Baker sur le jeune GW ne sont pas et ne seront certainement pas d\u00e9cisives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t A entendre Bush-p\u00e8re, \u00e0 mesurer sa stup\u00e9faction ici et l\u00e0, on comprend que l’attitude et la politique actuelles des USA ne sont pas le fait d’un accident ou d’une perversion temporaire (GW) mais bien l’expression d’un certain consensus<\/em>. GW repr\u00e9sente beaucoup plus un sentiment g\u00e9n\u00e9ral qu’on croit en Europe. Cela implique qu’il ne faut pas attendre de grands changements dans la politique US, malgr\u00e9 un Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocrate. Cela ira jusqu’\u00e0 la chute finale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 22 novembre 2006 \u00e0 10H00<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D’abord il y a ceci, qui nous en dit long: \u00abBush said he was surprised by the audience’s criticism of his son.\u00bb Cela se passait hier \u00e0 Abou Dhabi, chez les amis du Golfe. George Bush the elder, 82 ans, donnait une conf\u00e9rence amicale, chez des vieux amis, chez ceux qu’il consid\u00e8re comme des vieux… <\/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":[2947,868,6151,3634],"class_list":["post-68224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-amerique","tag-bush","tag-elder","tag-inculpabilite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68224","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=68224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}