Washington commence \u00e0 craindre l’arriv\u00e9e de Brown comme un possible changement tr\u00e8s net dans les relations sp\u00e9ciales entre USA et UK. Il faut dire qu’apr\u00e8s Tony Blair, on sera exigeant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLe Daily Telegraph<\/em> a publi\u00e9 deux articles successivement sur ce th\u00e8me, hier<\/a> et aujourd’hui<\/a>. Manifestement, les deux textes s’encha\u00eenent et le second semble avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9crit pour renforcer le premier \u00e0 partir de sources de l’administration Bush. Il y a peut-\u00eatre l’intention, de la part des sources US, d’exercer une pression sur Brown en mettant en \u00e9vidence le peu de confiance qu’elles ont en lui, pour obtenir des gages de sa part. Le r\u00e9sultat inverse est \u00e9galement possible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDans le premier article, divers \u00e9l\u00e9ments sont d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s mais on y apprend surtout qu’une premi\u00e8re rencontre Bush-Brown, le mois dernier, s’est mal pass\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abMr Brown’s relations with Mr Bush are cool after what the White House viewed as a slight, following the Chancellor’s first meeting with the President last month. Mr Brown himself claimed that the encounter came when Mr Bush happened to drop in on another meeting, a casual reference to what had been a meticulously planned courtesy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAn official in Washington said: That went down very badly indeed. It was carefully arranged and then Brown reacted by spurning the President. That was not a good move here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbNor was the encounter a meeting of minds. A source who has spoken to Mr Brown characterised the meeting as cool with no Colgate moment a reference to Tony Blair’s first encounter with Mr Bush in 2001, lightened by the discovery that they shared the same toothpaste.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAn old hand last week recalled a story that did the rounds of the Washington diplomatic salons during the early months of the Bush presidency. In one of Mr Brown’s first meetings with a senior Bush official he talked at length about William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, and the need for America to make a public apology for the slave trade – a move which prompted bemused irritation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe image of an awkward and obsessively liberal Chancellor is one that resonates today. One insider who has discussed Mr Brown with senior officials said: They don’t like Brown’s obsession with soft power. He’s not interested in the war on terror. There is great fear in parts of the National Security Council, the State Department and the Pentagon over the future of the relationship.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDans le second article, l’accent est mis sur les avertissements que GW Bush aurait re\u00e7us de la part de ses conseillers \u00e0 propos de Gordon Brown. Il est caract\u00e9ristique de l’atmosph\u00e8re obsessionnelle r\u00e9gnant \u00e0 la Maison-Blanche que le comportement attendu de Brown aille jusqu’\u00e0 \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un \u00e9l\u00e9ment de politique int\u00e9rieure, renfor\u00e7ant la position anti-Bush des d\u00e9mocrates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abGordon Brown is prepared to risk the future of the special relationship with the United States by reversing Tony Blair’s support for the Iraq war, President George W Bush has been warned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe has been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement on British troop withdrawals from Mr Brown during his first 100 days in power. It would be designed to boost the new prime minister’s popularity in the opinion polls.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe President recently discussed with a senior White House adviser how to handle the fallout from the expected loss of Washington’s main ally in Iraq, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHowever, it can be revealed that senior figures in the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department in Washington have expressed fears about Mr Brown. They believe that cordial relations between the two leaders will be at an end if the incoming premier plays gesture politics over Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOne senior official said: There is a sense of foreboding. We don’t know if he will be there when we need him. We expect a gesture that will greatly weaken the United States government’s position.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMark Kirk, a Republican congressman who discussed Iraq policy at the White House last week, said: The American view is that he’s a much weaker political leader than Blair. There’s the fear in Washington that he won’t be as strong an ally.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPresident Bush’s aides fear that Mr Brown will boost Democrats’ demands for a timetable for a US pullout from Iraq and encourage wavering Republicans to defect leaving the President more isolated.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLes cercles proches de Gordon Brown ont tent\u00e9, sans z\u00e8le excessif, de dissiper l’impression r\u00e9gnant dans l’administration Bush. De toutes les fa\u00e7ons, c’est une t\u00e2che hercul\u00e9enne, face \u00e0 une administration qui vit repli\u00e9e dans une sorte de fort assi\u00e9g\u00e9 face au Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocrate et \u00e0 son impopularit\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne qu’on d\u00e9crit ici fonctionne en circuit ferm\u00e9, dans des bureaucraties qui se suffisent \u00e0 elles-m\u00eames. L’id\u00e9e que Brown est moins s\u00fbr que Blair, de toutes les fa\u00e7ons en partie fond\u00e9e, est d\u00e9sormais dans le pipe-line et va influencer toutes les analyses internes et, par cons\u00e9quent, toutes les d\u00e9cisions. En un sens, on va rechercher les faits, si n\u00e9cessaire en les interpr\u00e9tant et en les d\u00e9formant, qui confirment cette analyse. L’interpr\u00e9tation en sera syst\u00e9matiquement gauchie dans un sens d\u00e9favorable au nouveau Premier ministre et aux relations sp\u00e9ciales. L’image de Brown est d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 dessin\u00e9e, avant m\u00eame qu’il soit Premier ministre et qu’il prenne des d\u00e9cisions. Il est donc probable que les \u00e9v\u00e9nements seront invit\u00e9s \u00e0 confirmer cette \u00e9valuation, et, s’il le faut, Washington prendra les d\u00e9cisions pour cela.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 20 mai 2007 \u00e0 10H44<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington commence \u00e0 craindre l’arriv\u00e9e de Brown comme un possible changement tr\u00e8s net dans les relations sp\u00e9ciales entre USA et UK. Il faut dire qu’apr\u00e8s Tony Blair, on sera exigeant. Le Daily Telegraph a publi\u00e9 deux articles successivement sur ce th\u00e8me, hier et aujourd’hui. 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