{"id":68847,"date":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/mais-nest-ce-pas-plutot-un-monument-grotesque-quune-ambassade-monstrueuse\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"mais-nest-ce-pas-plutot-un-monument-grotesque-quune-ambassade-monstrueuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/mais-nest-ce-pas-plutot-un-monument-grotesque-quune-ambassade-monstrueuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mais n’est-ce pas plut\u00f4t un monument grotesque qu’une ambassade monstrueuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sans nul doute, le point le plus important dans cette \u00e9trange affaire de l’ambassade US de Bagdad, c’est que si peu de monde en mesure le grotesque. Cette ambassade monstrueuse, gargantuesque, qui semble \u00eatre l’ambassade de toutes les ambassades (la m\u00e8re de toutes les ambassades?), sert-elle vraiment \u00e0 sa fonction d’ambassade capable de conduire tous les coups pendables auxquels nous a accoutum\u00e9s l’am\u00e9ricanisme qui se trouve toujours chez les autres comme chez lui ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTom Engelhardt s’essaie \u00e0 un exercice de d\u00e9finition, ce jour m\u00eame<\/a> sur son site TomDispatch.com<\/em>. Bien entendu, il est in\u00e9vitablement conduit \u00e0 des hypoth\u00e8ses surr\u00e9alistes, dont il trouve d’ailleurs ais\u00e9ment les r\u00e9f\u00e9rences chez les autres :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books terms it a base like our other vast, multibillion dollar permanent bases in Iraq. It is also a headquarters. But what a head! What quarters! It is neither town, nor quite city-state, but it could be considered a citadel, with its own anti-missile defenses, inside the increasingly breachable citadel of the Green Zone. It may already be the last piece of ground (excepting those other bases) that the United States, surge or no, can actually claim to fully occupy and control in Iraq and yet it already has something of the look of the Alamo (with amenities). Someday, perhaps, it will turn out to be the \u00a0\u00bbWhite House\u00a0\u00bb (though, in BDY’s sketches, its buildings look more like those prison-style schools being built in embattled American urban neighborhoods) for Moqtada al-Sadr, or some future Shiite Party, or a Sunni strongman, or a home for squatters. Who knows?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEngelhardt a son id\u00e9e, et elle est excellente. Qu’est-ce que c’est que cette ambassade sinon un monument \u00e9lev\u00e9 \u00e0 la gloire de la plus grande entreprise de conqu\u00eate du monde de tous les temps? Qu’importe si l’entreprise \u00e9choue puisque l’ambassade est l\u00e0 et bien l\u00e0, et qu’elle sera inaugur\u00e9e en septembre prochain. Avec elle, l’aventure est fix\u00e9e dans l’Histoire d’une fa\u00e7on d\u00e9finitive, et avec elle on peut \u00eatre s\u00fbr que l’Am\u00e9rique ne quittera jamais compl\u00e8tement sa conqu\u00eate irakienne. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIrr\u00e9sistiblement, Engelhardt est conduit \u00e0 se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer au monument \u00e9lev\u00e9 \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire des victimes de 9\/11, \u00e0 propos duquel il publia une autre chronique, il y a juste un an \u00e0 14 jours pr\u00e8s<\/a>. Le monument 9\/11 est \u00e9galement monstrueux par son co\u00fbt. Ainsi croirait-on que ces diverses comm\u00e9morations dans les pierres et dans les $milliards toujours disponibles constituent effectivement les gloires ultimes, les batailles centrales de la guerre contre la terreur. Cette boulimie de comm\u00e9moration, ou de faisant fonction, et de gaspillage nous indique clairement les limites et les impasses tragiques d’une nation qui n’arrive \u00e0 se faire croire qu’elle est conforme \u00e0 la narrative<\/em> qu’elle se fait d’elle-m\u00eame seulement quand elle se comm\u00e9more ou se repr\u00e9sente (apr\u00e8s tout, c’est la fonction d’une ambassade) d’une fa\u00e7on grotesquement trompeuse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tD’o\u00f9 la conclusion de Engelhardt : oui, il s’agit bien d’un monument<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIn Baghdad, Saddam’s giant hands are already on the road to ruin. Still going up in New York and Baghdad are two half-billion dollar-plus monuments to the Bush imperial moment. A 9\/11 memorial so grotesquely expensive that, when completed, it will be a reminder only of a time, already long past, when we could imagine ourselves as the Greatest Victims on the planet; and in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a monument to the Bush administration’s conviction that we were also destined to be the Greatest Dominators this world, and history, had ever seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbFrom both these monuments, someday and in the case of the embassy in Baghdad that day may not be so very distant those lone and level sands will undoubtedly stretch far, far away.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 30 mai 2007 \u00e0 14H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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