Stabilising Iraq will require new and different actions, the prospective US commander in the Middle East said today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAdmiral William Fallon, nominated by George Bush to lead Central Command, also told a Senate confirmation hearing that it could be time to redefine the goals in Iraq. I believe the situation … can be turned around, but time is short, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThe admiral, currently the commander of US forces in the Pacific, said he saw a need for a comprehensive approach to Iraq, including economic and political actions as well as military force.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhat we have been doing has not been working, he said. We have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAdm Fallon acknowledged that errors had been made, saying the US had probably been mistaken in its assessment of the Iraqi government’s ability to rebuild the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSecuring the stability of the country has been more difficult than anticipated, he added. Our ability to correctly assess the political, economic and security situation in Iraq has been lacking.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCes d\u00e9clarations de l’amiral apparaissent, dans le contexte g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des interpr\u00e9tations qui ont accompagn\u00e9 sa nomination et des bruits concernant une attaque contre l’Iran, comme tr\u00e8s ambigu\u00ebs. Elles peuvent parfaitement s’appliquer \u00e0 un sc\u00e9nario d’attaque contre l’Iran comme principal facteur de redressement de la situation en Irak, puisque aujourd’hui les choses vont mal en Irak, comme chacun sait, \u00e0 cause de l’Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDans un tel cadre conceptuel, comme on dit, des mots tels que : new and different actions<\/em>, I believe the situation … can be turned around, but time is short<\/em>, We have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different<\/em>, tout cela irait comme un gant \u00e0 une attaque contre l’Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 31 janvier 2007 \u00e0 09H09<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’amiral Fallon a t\u00e9moign\u00e9 devant le Congr\u00e8s, qui examine sa nomination \u00e0 la t\u00eate de Central Command, pour succ\u00e9der au g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Abuzaid. On sait que cette nomination a fait beaucoup sp\u00e9culer. Cette nomination, essentiellement parce qu’il s’agit d’un amiral, n’annonce-t-elle pas une attaque contre l’Iran? Que nous dit l’amiral Fallon? \u00abStabilising Iraq will require new… <\/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":[2610,3285,6296,857,2773],"class_list":["post-68471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-amiral","tag-congres","tag-fallon","tag-irak","tag-iran"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471","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=68471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}