{"id":68405,"date":"2007-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/le-dechirement-britannique-as-usual-et-encore-plus-quas-usual-jusqua-leur-cronstadt\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T00:00:00","slug":"le-dechirement-britannique-as-usual-et-encore-plus-quas-usual-jusqua-leur-cronstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/le-dechirement-britannique-as-usual-et-encore-plus-quas-usual-jusqua-leur-cronstadt\/","title":{"rendered":"Le d\u00e9chirement britannique, \u2014 as usual<\/em> , et encore plus qu’as usual<\/em>, \u2014 jusqu’\u00e0 leur Cronstadt\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comme d’habitude, les Britanniques essuient les pl\u00e2tres de leur alignement inconditionnel sur GW Bush et l’Am\u00e9rique, Blair-style. Le site WSWS.org<\/em> rel\u00e8ve ce jour<\/a> les g\u00e9missements et autres plaintes de la presse britannique : \u00abThe reaction of much of the media to the announcement was open despair. Though the decision had been trailed for weeks, this did not lessen its impact and the recognition of just how bad the situation now faced by Britain has become.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tParticuli\u00e8rement marquant \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, voici un article d’un des chroniqueurs du Times<\/em> de Londres, Matthew Parris<\/a>. Il d\u00e9crit son doute absolument existentiel (\u00abYes, America’s my friend. Or is it? Suddenly I’m not sure<\/em>\u00bb) quant au bien-fond\u00e9 de sa ferveur aveugle tr\u00e8s britannique, tr\u00e8s conforme \u00e0 l’establishment<\/em>, pour les relations sp\u00e9ciales avec le Royaume-Uni. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici donc que commence l’angoissant cas de conscience du chroniqueur, soudain interpell\u00e9 par ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne inconnu jusqu’alors : le libre jugement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab the moment the unconscious mind blurts it out. Typically this is associated either with a thought too awkward to acknowledge, or with a new opinion to which we are unconsciously moving but not quite ready to declare even to ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSuch moments are precious. I believe I experienced one yesterday. A familiar remark had caught my eye. Hard upon it came an unfamiliar reaction. The familiar remark was between quotes on the front page of The Times: If we’re going to follow the US or the EU, I’d take clumsy America any time. The sentence came from an article within, by my fellow columnist, Gerard Baker.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe unfamiliar reaction was mine. It was unfamiliar because it was negative. Take America any time? No, I’m not sure I would. Not any more.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEt voil\u00e0 le doute terrible infiltr\u00e9 dans l’all\u00e9geance qu’on croyait \u00e0 jamais fix\u00e9e. Et le doute terrible d\u00e9bouchant sur la terrible r\u00e9vision du jugement. Non moins terrible dilemme du chroniqueur. Matthew Parris le m\u00e8ne \u00e0 son terme, \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re tragique des derniers \u00e9chos washingtoniens, conclus par le discours de fer de Notre-Pr\u00e9sident. Enfin, l’esprit bascule. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCar tout se termine en apoth\u00e9ose, avec l’analogie entre l’URSS de Staline et les USA de GW. L’on a compris que le croyant est sur le point d’abjurer sa religion. Respectons sa peine et sa d\u00e9tresse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abWill I see it as a natural ally? Will I feel sure, as I always have, that America is a force for good in the world? British socialists the oldest among them, at any rate may remember British socialism’s long affair with an emerging world power: the Soviet Union. They will recall their early confidence and trust; all of them will remember trying valiantly to find positive interpretations of each new item of news, domestic or international, about the USSR; and some will remember visiting Russia and being able to believe all was well.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbPainfully, they will be able to remember, too, their own personal Kronstadt moment. The Kronstadt uprising, put down with extraordinary brutality, opened the eyes of many on this side of the Iron Curtain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhat was your Kronstadt? became a code phrase to find the point at which a European socialist or communist tipped from being a Soviet sympathiser.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI am not comparing Guantanamo with Gulag, or America with the Soviet Union it’s nothing like as bad as that. But if Washington does get us into a war with Iran, that will be my Kronstadt moment.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 13 janvier 2007 \u00e0 12H04<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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