{"id":68274,"date":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/05\/bye-bye-bolton\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"bye-bye-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/05\/bye-bye-bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye<\/em>, Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr\u00e8s tout, avec Bolton, il suffit de renverser les titres (celui-ci apr\u00e8s notre \u00abBolton, bye bye<\/em>\u00bb du 11 novembre<\/a>). La pr\u00e9tention de GW de conserver Bolton comme ambassadeur US \u00e0 l’ONU, sa tentative de faire passer sa confirmation avec le 109\u00e8me Congr\u00e8s r\u00e9publicain dans ses derni\u00e8res semaines, avant l’arriv\u00e9e du nouveau Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocrate (1er janvier 2007), \u00e9taient plut\u00f4t d\u00e9risoires. Sur Bolton, les d\u00e9mocrates avaient fait comprendre qu’ils ne c\u00e9deraient pas, et m\u00eame certains r\u00e9publicains : il s’agissait bien autant de vindicte personnelle que de politique, tant l’ambassadeur US \u00e0 l’ONU s’est fait d’ennemis acharn\u00e9s parmi ses adversaires politiques, et aussi un nombre non n\u00e9gligeable parmi ses amis politiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPersonne ne le pleure. Bolton, c’est la caricature de l’extr\u00e9miste, le radical, le type m\u00eame de neocon<\/em> que vous aimeriez pouvoir ha\u00efr. C’est fait. Tout le monde peut le ha\u00efr. L’\u00e9ditorial<\/a> du Guardian<\/em> r\u00e9sume le sentiment (en mettant justement l’accent sur l’aspect physique de la violence de Bolton, qui avait son r\u00f4le dans les n\u00e9gociations et les rencontres diplomatiques : \u00abFew tears for the great intimidator<\/em>\u00bb, titre le Guardian<\/em>, ce qui est exactement le cas : Bolton s’appuyait sur des arguments de pression et d’intimidation physique).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abOutside the depleted ranks of America’s neoconservatives, few tears are likely to be shed over John Bolton’s resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations. Mr Bolton’s political fate was effectively sealed, like that of Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, when the Republicans suffered their crippling defeat in the Congressional elections last month: two senior administration figures who were closely associated with the multiple disasters of the Iraq war have now happily paid the price.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMr Bolton was a polarising figure who intimidated others to support his hawkish views. But his influence went far beyond Baghdad and preceded the fall of Saddam Hussein. His blunt speaking and abrasive manner were harnessed to a visceral hostility to multilateral institutions and agreements he saw as inhibiting America’s pursuit of its own vital interests. This dictated his obstructive approach to the international criminal court, the very embodiment of multilateralism. To Chris Patten, he was the Pavarotti of neoconservatism; his views have taken the roof off chancelleries around the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBolton’s disdainful excesses helped America’s worst enemies, such as the North Korean propagandists who called him human scum. He was wrong to scorn European diplomatic efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. When this diehard unilateralist arrived at the UN in March 2005 it was utterly at odds with the pledge that after Iraq, the US would hold a conversation with the rest of the world, not a monologue. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic candidate, was right to say that sending Mr Bolton to Turtle Bay was the most inexplicable appointment the president could make to represent the US to the world community.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe d\u00e9part de Bolton n’a pas de signification politique particuli\u00e8re. Il confirme l’affaiblissement de la pr\u00e9sidence apr\u00e8s les \u00e9lections du 7 novembre, ce qui \u00e9tait \u00e9vident d\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Rumsfeld<\/a>. Par contre, il n’indique nullement que l’\u00e9vidente pr\u00e9pond\u00e9rance du Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocrate se traduira en faits politiques de grande port\u00e9e. Alors que l’arriv\u00e9e de Bolton \u00e0 l’ONU \u00e9tait un fait politique notable, son d\u00e9part est un \u00e9piph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de la crise washingtonienne. Les temps ont chang\u00e9, en encore<\/strong> plus chaotiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 5 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 09H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apr\u00e8s tout, avec Bolton, il suffit de renverser les titres (celui-ci apr\u00e8s notre \u00abBolton, bye bye\u00bb du 11 novembre). La pr\u00e9tention de GW de conserver Bolton comme ambassadeur US \u00e0 l’ONU, sa tentative de faire passer sa confirmation avec le 109\u00e8me Congr\u00e8s r\u00e9publicain dans ses derni\u00e8res semaines, avant l’arriv\u00e9e du nouveau Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocrate (1er janvier… <\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1092,5355,2773,3831,3478],"class_list":["post-68274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bolton","tag-demission","tag-iran","tag-neo-conservateurs","tag-onu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68274","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=68274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}