En un sens, la chose se comprend ; dans le contexte, elle \u00e9veille les soup\u00e7ons ; dans tous les cas, c’est un \u00e9l\u00e9ment de confusion de plus, lorsque Robert Gates, le secr\u00e9taire US \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense, d\u00e9clare qu’il se pr\u00e9pare pour l’\u00e9ventualit\u00e9 d’un \u00e9chec en Irak. Il s’agit de l’\u00e9chec (\u00e9ventuel) de l’offensive dite Iraq surge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t C’est le Sunday Times<\/em> d’aujourd’hui<\/a> qui nous pr\u00e9sente, d’ailleurs assez courtement, la nouvelle. Celle-ci est abord\u00e9e en demi-teinte. Il est normal que Gates se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 toute \u00e9ventualit\u00e9 ; \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de cela on ne peut s’emp\u00eacher de penser que cela fait mauvais effet. Dans tous les cas, le fait pour un journal comme le Sunday Times<\/em>, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral plut\u00f4t favorable \u00e0 Washington, d’afficher cette nouvelle (en manchette sur son site), avec deux paragraphes \u00e0 peine (ci-dessous) pour la justifier, en dit long sur l’\u00e9tat des esprits et les certitudes \u00e0 peine censur\u00e9es des inconscients.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAs America’s troop surge in Baghdad gathers force, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, is already planning for failure. If the battle for security in Iraq does not succeed, he has told Congress he is prepared to move troops out of harm’s way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPolicy experts at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for a fresh change in strategy should it be required. I would be irresponsible if I weren’t thinking about what the alternatives might be, Gates said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Assez curieusement, co\u00efncidence ou signe des temps, cette annonce d’un Gates pr\u00e9parant l’impensable (selon Bush-Cheney) suit de peu un article de Sidney Blumenthal, d\u00e9j\u00e0 signal\u00e9 par un lecteur le 9 f\u00e9vrier<\/a> sur notre Forum’ (\u00abAtmosph\u00e8re de d\u00e9sastre<\/em>\u00bb), sur Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abDeep within the bowels of the Pentagon, policy planners are conducting secret meetings to discuss what to do in the worst-case scenario in Iraq about a year from today if and when President Bush’s escalation of more than 20,000 troops fails, a participant in those discussions told me. None of those who are taking part in these exercises, shielded from the public view and the immediate scrutiny of the White House, believes that the so-called surge will succeed. On the contrary, everyone thinks it will not only fail to achieve its aims but also accelerate instability by providing a glaring example of U.S. incapacity and incompetence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe profoundly pessimistic thinking that permeates the senior military and the intelligence community, however, is forbidden in the sanitized atmosphere of mind-cure boosterism that surrounds Bush. He’s tried this two times it’s failed twice, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Jan. 24 about the surge’ tactic. I asked him at the White House, Mr. President, why do you think this time it’s going to work?’ And he said, Because I told them it had to.’ She repeated his words: I told them that they had to.’ That was the end of it. That’s the way it is.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbQuietly and calmly, as the Republicans hype the surge, the war planners prepare for the worst.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tEffectivement, ces mesures de pr\u00e9caution, cette planification pour le pire n’ont rien d’exceptionnel ni d’alarmant, techniquement parlant. Mais nous serions plut\u00f4t d’humeur psychologiquement parlant. Cette perspective horrible de la d\u00e9faite est compl\u00e8tement bannie du langage convenu et du conformisme des esprits en cours \u00e0 Washington, et pourtant elle est dramatiquement crainte et per\u00e7ue comme probable sinon in\u00e9vitable dans tous les esprits (sauf ceux de Bush-Cheney). Ces annonces contribuent fortement \u00e0 accro\u00eetre encore la lourdeur du climat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 11 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 13H53<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" En un sens, la chose se comprend ; dans le contexte, elle \u00e9veille les soup\u00e7ons ; dans tous les cas, c’est un \u00e9l\u00e9ment de confusion de plus, lorsque Robert Gates, le secr\u00e9taire US \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense, d\u00e9clare qu’il se pr\u00e9pare pour l’\u00e9ventualit\u00e9 d’un \u00e9chec en Irak. 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