16 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>, se penche, \u00e0 la fois d\u00e9sol\u00e9e et r\u00e9sign\u00e9e, sur le comportement psychologique de ce pr\u00e9sident. Cela nous donne une longue digression sur le fonctionnement de l’\u00e9trange psychologie du 43\u00e8me pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis Climat irr\u00e9el, pendant que l’Irak br\u00fble, que le reste du monde s’interroge sur le destin de la puissance am\u00e9ricaniste, que l’influence des USA ne cesse de d\u00e9cro\u00eetre et d’\u00eatre battue en br\u00e8che. GW, lui, joue de la lyre d’une belle alacrit\u00e9 optimiste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCet homme, vous dit-on, est un ent\u00eat\u00e9<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abI think George W. Bush is a totally pragmatic politician, said former senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), a member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which recommended a new course. He’s going to do outreach. . . . He is a total realist. He knows that the solid, march-in-step Republicans, at least in the House, are gone. . . . Now his legacy depends on the national interest, not partisanship.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOthers don’t buy it. On its Web site last week, the Democratic National Committee said Bush could be the most stubborn man on Earth for not immediately embracing the study group’s plan. Critics predicted that any new strategy he announces after the holidays will be little more than a dressed-up version of stay the course. And a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 66 percent of Americans do not think Bush is willing to change his policies in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI just don’t believe that this president, with this vice president whispering in his ear every moment, is oriented to change, said retired Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in Bush’s first term. And even if he were, I don’t believe his administration is capable of implementing change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLawrence J. Korb, a former Pentagon official under President Ronald Reagan, agreed. When it comes to Iraq, he has basically confused stubbornness with steadfastness, said Korb, who is now at the liberal Center for American Progress. I think he believes that regardless of what other people say, if he simply stays the course, he’ll be eventually proved right. But what he fails to see is the current course isn’t working and he has options.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe perception of Bush as unusually stubborn has defined his tenure to some extent, much to the consternation of adversaries and sometimes even allies. But Bush was deeply influenced by the fate of his father, whose decision to break his no-new-taxes pledge as president helped doom his reelection. The lesson: Stick to decisions regardless of shifts in political winds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe seemingly unshakeable confidence in the rightness of his positions has helped the current president weather political storms that might overwhelm others. For a man who presides over an unpopular war, just lost Congress and faces a final two years with constrained options, Bush gives little sign of self-pity. At holiday parties for friends and family in recent days, he has found himself bucking up others depressed by the turn in his political fortunes. Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it looks, he told one friend visiting the White House. There’s a lot we can get done.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 07H52<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il semble, devant la d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rance d’une situation washingtonienne compl\u00e8tement bloqu\u00e9e face \u00e0 la descente dans le chaos irakien, que l’analyse de la psychologie du Pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis reste l’occupation centrale des forces politiques de la capitale de l’hyperpuissance. Quel feu habite donc GW ? Comment est-il possible que cet homme, dans la position o\u00f9 il… <\/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":[3198,6228,3099,610],"class_list":["post-68316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-gw","tag-optimiste","tag-psychologie","tag-virtualisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68316","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=68316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}