{"id":68599,"date":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/variations-autour-dun-plan-b\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"variations-autour-dun-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/variations-autour-dun-plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations autour d&rsquo;un Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>En avril 1973, deux journalistes belges r\u00e9alis\u00e8rent une interview du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Goodpaster, occupant alors la fonction de SACEUR (Supreme Commander Europe, ou commandant en chef des forces de l&rsquo;OTAN). Il \u00e9tait alors tr\u00e8s fortement question du retrait de 100.000 soldats US d&rsquo;Europe, sur la pression du Congr\u00e8s (notamment l&rsquo;action du s\u00e9nateur Manfield). La question fut pos\u00e9e \u00e0 Goodpaster de savoir ce qu&rsquo;il ferait au cas o\u00f9 cette pression aboutirait. Goodpaster r\u00e9pondit <em>off the record<\/em> qu&rsquo;il refusait d&rsquo;envisager cette possibilit\u00e9 parce qu&rsquo;elle lui paraissait vraiment tr\u00e8s mena\u00e7ante ; comme derni\u00e8re ligne de d\u00e9fense, il refuserait de s&rsquo;y pr\u00e9parer en refusant la possibilit\u00e9 d&rsquo;une alternative. Autre fa\u00e7on de dire : il n&rsquo;y a pas de Plan B. (Le projet du retrait fut abandonn\u00e9 \u00e0 cause des remous int\u00e9rieurs, particuli\u00e8rement les derniers \u00e9pisodes de l&rsquo;affaire Watergate qui prirent un tour dramatique \u00e0 partir de mai 1973 jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 la d\u00e9mission de Nixon d&rsquo;ao\u00fbt 1974. Cette situation paralysa toutes les initiatives novatrices ou d\u00e9stabilisantes en mati\u00e8re de politique ext\u00e9rieure.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tC&rsquo;est sans doute \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de cette anecdote qu&rsquo;il faut consid\u00e9rer les sp\u00e9culations concernant un Plan B, dans le Washington <em>Post<\/em> du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/04\/AR2007030401321_pf.html\" class=\"gen\">5 mars<\/a>, et pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment la position du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Pace.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn&rsquo;t work?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. I&rsquo;m a Marine, Pace told them, and Marines don&rsquo;t talk about failure. They talk about victory.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration&rsquo;s position, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) recalled. Plan B was to make Plan A work.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCela dit officiellement comme ouverture du texte, suit une cascade de propositions de Plan B, montrant qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit l\u00e0 d&rsquo;une sp\u00e9culation majeure de la communaut\u00e9 US de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Le plus original \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard est le secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Gates, qui d\u00e9roge \u00e0 la r\u00e8gle non \u00e9crite pour les officiels de traiter les situations per\u00e7ues comme extr\u00eamement d\u00e9licates. (\u00ab<em>I would be irresponsible if I weren&rsquo;t thinking about what the alternatives might be, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates acknowledged last month to Congress, where many favor gradual or immediate withdrawal.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 7 mars 2007 \u00e0 23H34<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En avril 1973, deux journalistes belges r\u00e9alis\u00e8rent une interview du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Goodpaster, occupant alors la fonction de SACEUR (Supreme Commander Europe, ou commandant en chef des forces de l&rsquo;OTAN). Il \u00e9tait alors tr\u00e8s fortement question du retrait de 100.000 soldats US d&rsquo;Europe, sur la pression du Congr\u00e8s (notamment l&rsquo;action du s\u00e9nateur Manfield). 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