Il est vrai que lorsque le fou qui ne cesse de se taper sur la t\u00eate avec un marteau s’arr\u00eate et s’exclame C’est si bon quand on s’arr\u00eate !, tout le monde parle d’un formidable progr\u00e8s. Ainsi de la soi-disant diplomatie US et de son obsession irakienne devenue iranienne. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDepuis l’annonce que les Am\u00e9ricains vont participer<\/a> \u00e0 deux conf\u00e9rences o\u00f9 il y aura notamment les Iraniens et les Syriens, un courant optimiste est apparu \u00e0 Washington. On en trouve un \u00e9cho dans le texte de Helene Cooper dans l’International Herald Tribune<\/em> du 1er mars<\/a>, sous le titre prometteur de \u00abIn U.S., a new respect for pragmatism<\/em>\u00bb. Avec ces quelques mots pour situer l’ambiance de la chose:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn the span of just two weeks, the United States has agreed to hold high-level contacts with Iran and Syria, and to start down the path toward formal diplomatic recognition of North Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHas the Bush administration gone soft on its foes?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAdministration officials insisted Wednesday that the new overtures, including an agreement to join Iran and Syria in talks on Iraq, did not mean there had been a change in policy. There is no crack, the White House spokesman, Tony Snow, said. A number of people have been characterizing U.S. participation in a regional meeting as a change in policy; it is nothing of the sort.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut foreign policy experts, administration critics on Capitol Hill and former diplomats disagreed, saying the administration appeared to have recognized the extent to which it had tied its own hands by insisting on talking only to friends. Even Rice had called the opening to Tehran and Damascus a diplomatic initiative.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n