{"id":68667,"date":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/29\/le-political-and-moral-compass-de-tga\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"le-political-and-moral-compass-de-tga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/29\/le-political-and-moral-compass-de-tga\/","title":{"rendered":"Le \u201cpolitical and moral compass<\/em>\u201d de TGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timothy Garton-Ash (TGA) est un de ces intellectuels occidentaux, europ\u00e9ens, britanniques, lib\u00e9raux, presque de gauche et transatlantiques, dont les chroniques, les observations, les conf\u00e9rences et l’enseignement nous sont sans prix. De la Colonne Nelson \u00e0 Harvard, de Davos \u00e0 Saint-Germain des Pr\u00e9s, de Berlin \u00e0 la Colonne Nelson, TGA est un homme de notre civilisation et un homme qui parle \u00e0 notre civilisation. Entre deux publications, il parle aux autres civilisations. C’est une voix universaliste, britannique et special relationships<\/em> parce qu’on ne peut pas faire autrement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette fois, il parle \u00e0 l’Europe, plus sp\u00e9cialement aux Allemands qui pr\u00e9sident l’UE, parce qu’il l’a mauvaise, TGA. Simplement parce qu’il est Britannique, comme vous et moi, et que, vous savez, Right or Wrong<\/em>. Il faut dire qu’aujourd’hui l’Angleterre se sent un peu seulette, et Tony Blair (TB) \u00e9galement, et que, comme l’\u00e9crit plaintivement Melanie Phillips \u00abin yesterday’s Daily Mail<\/em>\u00bb, selon TGA, \u00abAdmiral Lord Nelson must be revolving in his grave<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTGA nous donne une chronique, aujourd’hui m\u00eame<\/a>, o\u00f9 il se plaint plaintivement que l’Europe ne montre pas un peu plus de solidarit\u00e9 devant le malheur que rencontre l’Angleterre, accabl\u00e9e par le comportement barbare des Iraniens qui se sont saisis de 15 marins britanniques comme l’on sait, non, \u00abthose 14 European men and one European woman<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSuit une plaidoirie avis\u00e9e et un peu am\u00e8re, qui nous \u00f4te bien des arguments de la plume<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abMany continental Europeans, if they have registered that there is a crisis at all and many will not have, since Europe’s media are still mainly national in form and priorities will probably think of it as yet another consequence of a foolish, illegitimate Anglo-American military action in Iraq. They will see it as a problem for them (Brits and Americans) rather than for us (right- thinking, peace-loving Europeans). Some may suspect the British sailors and marines did in fact stray into Iranian territorial waters, as the Iranians claim. A few may even privately mutter: Well, you had it coming to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThose who follow these things more closely may wonder if the Revolutionary Guards were not making an indirect tit-for-tat response to American seizures of Iranians in Iraq, perhaps even hoping for a hostage swap. Or perhaps just an angry reaction to the latest UN security council resolution about Iran’s nuclear programme which was actually passed a day after the kidnapping, but its contents were well-known beforehand. That resolution extends targeted sanctions to companies controlled by the Revolutionary Guards and to individuals including the commander of the Revolutionary Guards navy. But I would bet my bottom euro that none of these continental Europeans’ synapses will have fired spontaneously with this thought: \u00a0\u00bbOur fellow-Europeans have been kidnapped, so what can we, as Europe, do in response?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbEven if you regard the Anglo-American presence in Iraq as foolish and illegitimate, and the American seizure of Iranians in Iraq as an escalation of this illegitimate folly, that would not for a moment excuse the Iranian action. The British forces were operating as part of a multinational force under an explicit UN mandate, to protect oil installations and prevent the smuggling of guns into Iraq guns with which more Iraqis would otherwise be killed. According to the sophisticated GPS instruments which the British service personnel had with them, they were more than three kilometres inside Iraqi territorial waters when they went to search a suspect vessel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbReflecting the confusion inside the Iranian state, the first coordinates for the allegedly transgressing British boats given to the British by the Iranian government turned out to be within Iraqi territorial waters too. Not until three days later did the Iranians come up with a second corrected set of coordinates which conveniently put the British forces on the wrong side of the line. Only someone whose political and moral compass is totally disorientated by hostility to American and British policy could dare to suggest that this act of shameless, lying, cross-border piracy is justified or excusable.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est vrai, TGA, qu’il faut avoir paum\u00e9 son political and moral compass<\/em> pour s’en foutre comme l’Europe s’en fout aujourd’hui, laissant Tony Blair d\u00e9sorient\u00e9 avant son d\u00e9part du pouvoir et Gordon Brown inquiet avant de reprendre le flambeau et de poursuivre la grande \u00e9quip\u00e9e anglo-saxonne. C’est vrai que c’est faire la partie belle aux dingues de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran. S\u00e9rieusement, il n’y a pas de quoi \u00eatre fier si l’on est Europ\u00e9en, de ne pas se pr\u00e9cipiter au secours de ces braves 15 Europ\u00e9ens ill\u00e9galement d\u00e9tenus et ainsi de suite. D’ailleurs, tout le monde s’en fout, comme on s’en fout lorsque TB prend toutes ses pr\u00e9cautions<\/a> pour ne pas affoler notre political and moral compass<\/em> par les d\u00e9comptes hyst\u00e9riquement excessifs et qu’on sait pourtant rationnellement justifi\u00e9s des tueries anglo-saxonnes en Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est vrai que les Allemands, pas trop engag\u00e9s et qui font du commerce avec les Iraniens, pourraient donner un coup de main, eux qui pr\u00e9sident l’UE et f\u00eatent son demi-si\u00e8cle. TB, par l’interm\u00e9diaire de TGA, obtiendra bien un petit paragraphe dans le communiqu\u00e9 de la prochaine r\u00e9union des ministres des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res de l’Europe \u00e0 27 et solidaire. TGA demande en effet des pressions \u00e9conomiques des amis europ\u00e9ens sur les Iraniens sinon la vengeance de TB sera terrible : \u00abI gather that if such private pressure is not forthcoming, Britain might be tempted to raise the suggestion more formally at a meeting of European foreign ministers in Bremen this weekend.<\/em>\u00bb (Preuve qu’au moins notre ami chroniqueur a pris des le\u00e7ons des Iraniens en mati\u00e8re de pressions et de chantage.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPersonne ne doute plus des sentiments europ\u00e9ens des chroniqueurs chic britanniques. Personne ne doute du moral compass<\/em> de TB en Irak et en Afghanistan. Personne ne doute de rien. Tout le monde a autre chose \u00e0 faire. Chacun a ses occupations. L’Angleterre, c’est le political and moral compass<\/em>, l’Europe c’est de s’en foutre dans ce cas, du political and moral compass<\/em>. TB nous a habitu\u00e9s \u00e0 cette sorte de gymnastique, avec son political and moral compass<\/em> aussi souple qu’une montre-gousset peinte par Dali. D\u00e9sol\u00e9, TGA, even if you regard the Europe apathy in the British sailor’s case as foolish and illegitimate<\/em>, c’est l’Europe telle qu’elle est dans le monde tel qu’il est. Les Anglo-Saxons se sont employ\u00e9s \u00e0 lui donner la forme triomphante qu’on lui voit aujourd’hui, avec les sentiments et les solidarit\u00e9s qui vont avec.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTGA a-t-il essay\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la solidarit\u00e9 anglo-saxonne ? Un article dans le Washington Post<\/em>, que ne lit pas directement GW mais qu’on lui traduit en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 29 mars 2007 \u00e0 05H30<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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