10 mai<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abRichard Holbrooke, a former senior U.S. diplomat and a possible Democratic secretary of state, on Thursday described Iraq as a civil war raging out of control and a foreign policy crisis worse than Vietnam.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHolbrooke, who has served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as the top U.S. diplomat for Europe and for East Asia, said it would likely fall to the next U.S. president to decide whether and how to extricate America from the conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbIraq already presents us with the worst situation internationally in modern American history. Worse even than Vietnam, Holbrooke added, noting he served in Saigon and worked on Vietnam in Washington and at the Paris peace talks. I never thought I would say anything was worse than Vietnam but Iraq, my friends, is worse than Vietnam, he said, voicing hope that the current U.S. offensive will succeed but saying the chances of this are not high..<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbIf it does not succeed, then the United States will face an even more difficult set of choices, he added, describing these as increasing troop levels, holding them steady, trying to disengage from the battle of Baghdad while fighting al Qaeda elsewhere in Iraq, or simply withdrawing. You can assume, safely, the current administration will reject the last option … and look for ways to salvage something from the wreckage of its own misguided policies, he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs a result, he said Bush would bequeath his successor the war in Iraq, the continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan, where about 26,000 U.S. troops confront a renewed Taliban insurgency, as well as the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWe must assume … that the next president will inherit the most difficult foreign policy challenges ever to land in the Oval Office on day one, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhoever it is, the odds are very high that disengagement from Iraq unless the war is clearly being won will be a very high priority, he said. Any withdrawal … should not be done precipitously, of course, but no one can predict now what the next president will actually confront.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 11 mai 2007 \u00e0 13H26<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une communication de Richard Holbrooke, le 10 mai lors d’un s\u00e9minaire am\u00e9ricano-turc, est remarquable par la tonalit\u00e9 alarmiste qu’elle montre, et indique que l’establishment washingtonien prend de plus en plus la mesure de l’ampleur de la catastrophe irakienne. (Holbrooke, diplomate d’exp\u00e9rience apr\u00e8s plusieurs postes de haut niveau dans l’administration Clinton [Bill], est donn\u00e9 favori comme… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4906,6045,3228,4300,857],"class_list":["post-68786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-4906","tag-catastrophe","tag-crise","tag-holbrooke","tag-irak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}