{"id":68351,"date":"2006-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/30\/une-armee-brisee-une-revolte-en-pleine-lumiere-avec-the-appeal-for-redress\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T00:00:00","slug":"une-armee-brisee-une-revolte-en-pleine-lumiere-avec-the-appeal-for-redress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/30\/une-armee-brisee-une-revolte-en-pleine-lumiere-avec-the-appeal-for-redress\/","title":{"rendered":"Une arm\u00e9e bris\u00e9e, une r\u00e9volte en pleine lumi\u00e8re avec the Appeal for Redress<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sans doute le choc que subit l’arm\u00e9e des Etats-Unis aujourd’hui est-il sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, y compris, bien s\u00fbr, le cas du Viet-n\u00e2m fameux pour ses troubles au sein des forces arm\u00e9es. A c\u00f4t\u00e9 des aspects mat\u00e9riels, op\u00e9rationnels et doctrinaux, un des points d’attraction de la rupture qui frappe les forces arm\u00e9es US se trouve dans l’activisme qui se d\u00e9veloppe dans leurs rangs, pour protester contre la guerre en Irak. Plus qu’un mouvement anti-militariste, c’est sp\u00e9cifiquement un mouvement anti-guerrre (contre cette guerre d’Irak).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’Appeal for Redress<\/em>, initiative sans autre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent aux USA qu’une page (avec un texte anti-guerre) sign\u00e9e par 1.369 militaires d’active dans le New York Times<\/em> en 1969, est d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 l’un des grands \u00e9v\u00e9nements de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Lanc\u00e9 en octobre, le mouvement compte pr\u00e8s de mille signatures (trois quart de soldats d’active, un quart de r\u00e9servistes), dont celles de plusieurs dizaines d’officiers parmi lesquels on trouve quelques colonels. Le mouvement se d\u00e9veloppe totalement selon les normes l\u00e9gales des arm\u00e9es, utilisant les dispositions de libert\u00e9 de contestation existantes. Il s’agit d’un appel directement adress\u00e9 au Congr\u00e8s pour qu’il fasse pression pour le retrait des forces arm\u00e9es US d’Irak (Le texte dit: \u00abAs a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’appel et certains de ses membres seront officiellement pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s au Congr\u00e8s courant janvier, officialisant selon un processus exceptionnel une initiative qui, in illo tempore<\/em> et en temps normal, serait class\u00e9e comme s\u00e9ditieuse. Les temps actuels ne sont pas normaux, \u00e0 Washington, o\u00f9 la confusion et l’atomisation du pouvoir ouvrent le champ libre \u00e0 de telles initiatives, et leur donnent m\u00eame une r\u00e9elle l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 l\u00e0 o\u00f9 l’autorit\u00e9 politique a perdu la sienne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn excellent texte de Marc Cooper, dans The Nation<\/em> (mis en ligne le 20 d\u00e9cembre<\/a> pour le num\u00e9ro du 8 janvier 2007), permet d’avoir une vue en profondeur du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, avec divers interviews de signataires de l’appel, en m\u00eame temps qu’une impression plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du malaise extraordinaire qui affecte l’arm\u00e9e. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab(U.S. Navy’s Lieutenant Commander) Dearden has indeed joined the most significant movement of organized and dissident GIs seen in America since 1969, when 1,366 active-duty service members signed a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for an end to the Vietnam War. The Appeal for Redress, surfacing only in late October, has taken anti-Iraq War sentiment that’s been simmering within the ranks and surfaced it as a mainstream plea backed by the enormous moral authority of active-duty personnel. It’s an undeniable barometer of rising military dissent and provides a strong argument that the best way to support the troops is to recognize their demand to be withdrawn from Iraq. While clearly inspired by the GI movement of the Vietnam era, it takes a much different tack. Instead of attacking or confronting the military, as the resistance movement of the 1960s often did, the Appeal works within the military’s legal framework.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbThe Appeal comes as the natural culmination of previous flickerings of military discontent with official Iraq policy. The bogging down of the war, along with the Bush Administration’s use of a backdoor draft the extension of tours of duty and an unprecedented call-up of active and inactive reserves has stoked the discontent. Two years ago, some two dozen Army reservists refused to carry out a supply mission in Iraq, complaining that their vehicles were unsafe. Twenty Florida National Guard members petitioned their commanders to bring the troops home. In Kansas, Army reserve family members collected 8,000 signatures on a website protesting extended tours. While figures are difficult to confirm, counselors at the GI Rights Hotline estimate that as many as 1,000 or more troops and reservists go AWOL every month, not wanting to serve in Iraq. About 200 to 300 have fled to Canada, according to military rights lawyers. And in a half-dozen or so high-profile cases, uniformed personnel are facing court-martial and jail for refusing deployment to Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbInterviews with more than two dozen signers, both in Iraq and on domestic US military bases from Fort Stewart in the east to Hawaii’s Hickam Air Force Base, reveal a movement that includes low-level grunts and high-ranking officers, as well as a rich diversity of racial, economic and educational backgrounds. The signers offered a variety of motivations ideological, practical, strategic and moral but all agreed the war was no longer worth fighting and that the troops should be brought home. As the debate on Iraq sharpens in the wake of the Baker-Hamilton report and as a new Democratic Congress is seated, the collective voice of active-duty opponents of the war is likely to add considerable clout to the antiwar movement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThis Martin Luther King holiday weekend, members of the Appeal will appear on Capitol Hill to formally present the petition to Congress to press their case. For an all-volunteer force, says Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, it’s simply unprecedented.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 30 d\u00e9cembre 2006 \u00e0 15H24<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sans doute le choc que subit l’arm\u00e9e des Etats-Unis aujourd’hui est-il sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, y compris, bien s\u00fbr, le cas du Viet-n\u00e2m fameux pour ses troubles au sein des forces arm\u00e9es. A c\u00f4t\u00e9 des aspects mat\u00e9riels, op\u00e9rationnels et doctrinaux, un des points d’attraction de la rupture qui frappe les forces arm\u00e9es US se trouve dans l’activisme… <\/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":[6274,2894,3285,5592,6275,857,6276,2671],"class_list":["post-68351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-appeal","tag-armee","tag-congres","tag-contestation","tag-for","tag-irak","tag-redress","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351","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=68351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}