Nombreux sont les esprits avis\u00e9s, en ce d\u00e9but d’ann\u00e9e aux USA, qui examinent avec les plus vives inqui\u00e9tudes le destin de leur pays. On a vu, par exemple, le cas de William Pfaff<\/a>. Voici celui de Gabriel Kolko, dans un texte que publie LewRockwell.com<\/em> le 1er f\u00e9vrier<\/a>. Kolko s’attache \u00e0 son th\u00e8me favori, la dimension belliciste, cette sorte de besoin de guerre du syst\u00e8me, d’o\u00f9 son titre : \u00abThe Age of Perpetual Conflict.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais, apr\u00e8s tout, l’Am\u00e9rique n’est certes pas la premi\u00e8re puissance \u00e0 montrer cette folie de la guerre? Sans doute, les exemples sont nombreux. Mais ce que Kolko met en \u00e9vidence, c’est son incapacit\u00e9 d’apprendre, notamment de ses erreurs et de ses \u00e9checs, c’est-\u00e0-dire, si l’on veut, son impuissance \u00e0 devenir sage, \u00e0 acqu\u00e9rir ce qu’on nomme la sagesse. Fort heureusement pour la f\u00e9condit\u00e9 du propos, Kolko nous renvoie ainsi \u00e0 la psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste. En cela, effectivement, l’Am\u00e9rique est exceptionnelle. Il n’est pas assur\u00e9, comme on le comprend vite, qu’on doive l’envier.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tVoici un passage o\u00f9 est exprim\u00e9e cette id\u00e9e :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAt the beginning of the 21st century only the U.S. has the will to maintain a global foreign policy and to intervene everywhere it believes necessary. Today and in the near future, America will make the decisions that will lead to war or peace, and the fate of much of the world is largely in its hands. It thinks it possesses the arms and a spectrum of military strategies all predicated on a triumphant activist role for itself. It believes that its economy can afford interventionism, and that the American public will support whatever actions necessary to set the affairs of some country or region on the political path it deems essential. This grandiose ambition is bipartisan and, details notwithstanding, both parties have always shared a consensus on it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe obsession with power and the conviction that armies can produce the political outcome a nation’s leaders desire is by no means an exclusively American illusion. It is a notion that goes back many centuries and has produced the main wars of modern times. The rule of force has been with mankind a very long time, and the assumptions behind it have plagued its history for centuries. But unlike the leaders of most European nations or Japan, the United States’ leaders have not gained insight from the calamities that have so seared modern history. Folly is scarcely an American monopoly, but resistance to learning when grave errors have been committed is almost proportionate to the resources available to repeat them. The Germans learned their lesson after two defeats, the Japanese after World War Two, and both nations found wars too exhausting and politically dangerous. America still believes that if firepower fails to master a situation the solution is to use it more precisely and much more of it. In this regard it is exceptional past failures have not made it any wiser.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 2 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 09H24<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nombreux sont les esprits avis\u00e9s, en ce d\u00e9but d’ann\u00e9e aux USA, qui examinent avec les plus vives inqui\u00e9tudes le destin de leur pays. On a vu, par exemple, le cas de William Pfaff. Voici celui de Gabriel Kolko, dans un texte que publie LewRockwell.com le 1er f\u00e9vrier. 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