Poursuivons par un deuxi\u00e8me aspect le commentaire de l’article<\/a> de Craig Unger, d\u00e9j\u00e0 signal\u00e9 dans la note pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente<\/a>. Nous citons d’abord ce deuxi\u00e8me extrait qui nous para\u00eet int\u00e9ressant (tout l’article est de cet int\u00e9r\u00eat et de cette haute tenue mais il faut bien choisir). Il concerne l’Iran et la possible prochaine attaque contre ce pays et est bas\u00e9 sur des confidences du lieutenant colonel W. Patrick Lang, qui a quitt\u00e9 la Defense Intelligence Agency o\u00f9 il servait comme officier charg\u00e9 du Moyen-Orient, de l’Asie du Sud et du terrorisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAnother serious development is the growing role of the U.S. Strategic Command (StratCom), which oversees nuclear weapons, missile defense, and protection against weapons of mass destruction. Bush has directed StratCom to draw up plans for a massive strike against Iran, at a time when CentCom has had its hands full overseeing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shifting to StratCom indicates that they are talking about a really punishing air-force and naval air attack [on Iran], says Lang.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMoreover, he continues, Bush can count on the military to carry out such a mission even without congressional authorization. If they write a plan like that and the president issues an execute order, the forces will execute it. He’s got the power to do that as commander-in-chief. We set that up during the Cold War. It may, after the fact, be considered illegal, or an impeachable offense, but if he orders them to do it, they will do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbLang also notes that the recent appointment of a naval officer, Admiral William Fallon, to the top post at CentCom may be another indication that Bush intends to bomb Iran. It makes very little sense that a person with this background should be appointed to be theater commander in a theater in which two essentially ground’ wars are being fought, unless it is intended to conduct yet another war which will be different in character, he wrote in his blog. The employment of Admiral Fallon suggests that they are thinking about something that is not a ground campaign.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’information sur la prise en main d’une possible op\u00e9ration par le Strategic Command (StratCom) nous para\u00eet tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressante. StratCom regroupe les forces strat\u00e9giques US, \u00e0 capacit\u00e9s g\u00e9n\u00e9rales (nucl\u00e9aires et conventionnelles). L’information indique essentiellement que les militaires US ne veulent prendre aucun risque et lancer toute leurs forces pour \u00e9craser, ou tenter d’\u00e9craser les capacit\u00e9s nucl\u00e9aires de l’Iran dans une op\u00e9ration strat\u00e9gique majeure. C’est un plan de force brute, bien dans la mani\u00e8re du Pentagone, exactement dans l’esprit du commentaire de Lang (\u00abShifting to StratCom indicates that they are talking about a really punishing air-force and naval air attack<\/em> [on Iran].\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n