C’est une question essentielle qu’aborde l’historien Gabriel Kolko dans un essai mis en ligne le 10 f\u00e9vrier, sur les sites CounterPunch<\/a> et Defense and the National Interest<\/a>. C’est la question de l’utilit\u00e9 et de l’usage de la guerre comme instrument utile de la politique, notamment et principalement \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des \u00e9v\u00e9nements du temps pr\u00e9sent. Des affaires comme la guerre en Irak et le bref affrontement entre Isra\u00ebl et le Hezbollah ont port\u00e9 un coup sans doute fatal \u00e0 ce qui n’\u00e9tait plus qu’un mythe, auquel pourtant les puissances \u00e9tablies ont continu\u00e9 \u00e0 croire sans oser envisager de se r\u00e9former avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tKolko ne fait qu’effleurer cette question fondamentale dans son essai, mais il le fait d’une fa\u00e7on convaincante, qui va au cur du d\u00e9bat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThere has been a qualitative leap in military technology that makes all inherited conventional wisdom, and war as an instrument of political policy, utterly irrelevant, not just to the United States but also to any other state that embarks upon it. Nations should have realized this a century ago but they did not. But there have been decisive changes in balances of power, and more accurate and destructive weapons and soon nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them are becoming more and more available to the poorer countries. Technology is moving much more rapidly than the diplomatic and political resources or will to control its inevitable consequences. Nowhere is the danger of an uncontrolled, technology-driven escalation greater than in the long standing and increasingly complicated alliance between Israel and the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe United States should have learned its lesson in Vietnam, and its public is aware of it to a far greater extent than its politicians. The war in Iraq has reaffirmed the decisive limits of technology when fighting against enemies who are decentralized and determined. It has been extraordinarily expensive but militarily ineffective, and America is ineluctably losing its vast undertaking. Rivals are much more equal, and wars more protracted and expensive for those who persist in fighting them. America’s ambitions for hegemony throughout the globe can now be more and more successfully challenged.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe ultra-modern Israel Defense Force finally learned this in Lebanon last July, when Hezbollah rockets destroyed or seriously damaged at least 20 of its best tanks and they were fought to a draw abandoning the field of battle and losing their precious myth of invincibility…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa question de l’usage intensif et de l’utilit\u00e9 de la guerre \u00e0 et pour des fins politiques, avec la r\u00e9ponse n\u00e9gative qu’on peut proposer aujourd’hui comme nous le d\u00e9montre obligeamment le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, constitue un d\u00e9bat passionnant qui concerne l’Occident dans son ensemble. Notre civilisation \u00e9tant b\u00e2tie notamment sur la puissance de la technologie, comme l’avait indiqu\u00e9 en le d\u00e9plorant Arnold Toynbee<\/a>, et cette puissance \u00e9tant particuli\u00e8rement utilis\u00e9e dans la guerre, l’\u00e9chec de la guerre est un point compl\u00e8tement fondamental. Comme l’indique Kolko, la chose \u00e9tait \u00e9vidente il y a un si\u00e8cle, apr\u00e8s la guerre 14-18 qui montra que la guerre tendait vers l’impossibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 cause des destructions que la technologie lui permettait de causer. Aujourd’hui, la d\u00e9monstration est en train d’\u00eatre achev\u00e9e par la mise en \u00e9vidence de l’aspect fratricide<\/a> de cette puissance technologique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa civilisation occidentale sous influence am\u00e9ricaniste se trouve devant un probl\u00e8me immense. Devant elle se dresse l’obstacle de cette menace de la r\u00e9duction vertigineuse de ce qui fonde sa puissance. Elle n’a pas de substitut. Elle est trop engag\u00e9e dans cette voie \u00e0 sens unique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 11 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 10H50<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C’est une question essentielle qu’aborde l’historien Gabriel Kolko dans un essai mis en ligne le 10 f\u00e9vrier, sur les sites CounterPunch et Defense and the National Interest. 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