En quelques jours s’est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e une trag\u00e9die qui nous renvoie aux r\u00e9f\u00e9rences bibliques. Ainsi en juge James Carroll<\/a> (dans le Boston Globe<\/em> du 18 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>), dont on conna\u00eet la profonde religiosit\u00e9. Il s’agit des jours o\u00f9, GW Bush, rejetant le rapport Baker de l’ISG, en vint \u00e0 d\u00e9cider que les USA augmenteraient l’intensit\u00e9 de la guerre. Au lieu de la reconnaissance de ses effets et de l’\u00e9vitement de ses horribles cons\u00e9quences, cet acte \u00e0 rench\u00e9ri sur le p\u00e9ch\u00e9 originel que les USA ont commis au Moyen-Orient.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSelon la formule consacr\u00e9e, que Dieu nous prot\u00e8ge<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abInstead of the originating sin of parents, the Cain-and-Abel combatants of today’s Middle East (from the insurgent parties in Iraq, to the warring factions of Lebanon, to the antagonists in Israel and Palestine, now including the fratricidal Palestinians) are burdened by the fatal flaw of the United States of America. The indispensable nation, it turns out, proves indispensable only for the spread of chaos. The grievances of the Middle East are ancient, but so is the capacity for fragile balance, now upset. Iraqis, Lebanese, Israelis, and Palestinians all make violent choices and bear the weight of violent consequences, but the immediate context within which those choices are being made has been overwhelmingly established by violent choices made in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe Bush administration embraced the cult of war when it did not have to. Bush re-legitimized that cult, and sponsored it anew. In this, he was supported by the American people, its press and its political establishment. In the beginning, the nation itself re affirmed war as the way to justice-and-peace. We did this. The first fallacy lived. By now, even Washington’s one self-proclaimed victory’ has led to further defeat. The good’ war in Afghanistan put in place structures of oppression that promised an inevitable resumption of savagery, which has begun.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAfter murdering Abel, Cain justified his act, and his parents denied their responsibility for it. Otherwise, the dread pattern of accusation and recrimination would have been checked right there. Humans have been enslaved by this dynamic ever since. Does that vindicate the United States with a realist’ claim to inevitability? No. Because historic moments of ethical recognition regularly present themselves, and one just did. The Baker commission, whatever its faults, defined the folly of any further American pursuit of victory’ in Iraq. Yet, with Bush’s mantra of prevail,’ other studies’ commissioned to dilute Baker’s, and fresh Pentagon talk of brutal escalation, the aim of victory through mass violence is being reaffirmed. The unoriginal sin, by now, but more deadly than ever.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 22 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 08H24<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" En quelques jours s’est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e une trag\u00e9die qui nous renvoie aux r\u00e9f\u00e9rences bibliques. 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