Tout le monde ne partage pas l’avis mod\u00e9r\u00e9 concernant la nomination d’Eliot Cohen au d\u00e9partement d’Etat, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Condi Rice, tel qu’on l’a signal\u00e9 sur ce site, dans la rubrique Faits & Commentaires’ d’hier<\/a>. C’est le cas de Glenn Greenwald, dans Salon.com<\/em> ce jour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’interpr\u00e9tation qu’il donne de cette nomination est que Cohen est plac\u00e9 \u00e0 ce poste pour emp\u00eacher toute pouss\u00e9e hostile au d\u00e9partement d’Etat \u00e0 un \u00e9ventuel conflit contre l’Iran. (\u00abAs they have done many times before, neoconservatives, with Iran in their sights, have installed one of their own at State to block any war-avoiding rapprochement<\/em>\u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais plus que cette interpr\u00e9tation, ce qui nous int\u00e9resse dans ce texte est que l’auteur met en \u00e9vidence une question, une grande question, nous semble-t-il. En substance, il s’agit de savoir comment il est possible que ce groupe, qui devrait \u00eatre totalement discr\u00e9dit\u00e9 par les \u00e9checs catastrophiques que ses conseils ont suscit\u00e9s, continue \u00e0 disposer d’une telle influence. Le passage sur cette question :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThis continues to be the most astounding, significant, and alarming trend as the recognition grows even in Beltway elite media circles that the people who designed and sold the Iraq war to the American public are completely untrustworthy and discredited figures, they are exactly the ones who continue to exert the most influence, by far, on the President, and their influence seems only to be growing. Here is a question which Tim Russert asked Lindsay Graham this weekend a question that is three years overdue but nonetheless welcome after Graham kept insisting that Americans give the Great Surge Plan a chance to succeed:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMR. RUSSERT: But many Americans will say that those who supported the war are saying, Trust us, see this through, the same people who said, There are weapons of mass destruction. General Shinseki’s wrong, we don’t need hundreds of thousands of troops. We will be greeted as liberators.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSEN. GRAHAM: Mm-hmm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMR. RUSSERT: The cost of the war, according to Lawrence Lindsey, won’t be more than $200 billion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSEN. GRAHAM: Yeah.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMR. RUSSERT: There won’t be any sectarian violence. All those judgments were wrong. Why should the American people continue to believe in those same people who had so many misjudgments leading up [to] and executing the war?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe premise of Russert’s question is exactly right, and it is one of the most crucial propositions to emphasize Why should the American people continue to believe in those same people who had so many misjudgments leading up to and executing the war? They should not, of course. And we know exactly who \u00a0\u00bbthose same people\u00a0\u00bb are. Eliot Cohen is not just one of them, but he is one of their leaders. He has been wrong about everything. If he had his way, we would have far more wars than we have already.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPersonne ne semble pouvoir r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cette question. Quelle autre r\u00e9ponse envisager que celle selon laquelle les n\u00e9o-conservateurs expriment en partie des tendances profondes de l’Am\u00e9rique actuelle ou, dans tous les cas, de l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien, par leur agressivit\u00e9, leur bellicisme sans mesure, quels que soient les effets de telles attitudes ? lls sont \u00e0 la fois les porte-parole de ces tendances profondes, en m\u00eame temps que leur alibi, \u00e9ventuellement leur bouc-\u00e9missaire, etc. Ils ne sont jamais compl\u00e8tement \u00e9limin\u00e9s dans le climat actuel parce que, litt\u00e9ralement, ils peuvent toujours servir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 5 mars 2007 \u00e0 21H49<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tout le monde ne partage pas l’avis mod\u00e9r\u00e9 concernant la nomination d’Eliot Cohen au d\u00e9partement d’Etat, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Condi Rice, tel qu’on l’a signal\u00e9 sur ce site, dans la rubrique Faits & Commentaires’ d’hier. C’est le cas de Glenn Greenwald, dans Salon.com ce jour. 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