aujourd’hui<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWhen you hear the news of Tony Blair’s possible appointment as the Quartet’s peace envoy to the Middle East, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. His selection for the job takes American policy in the Middle East to new heights of absurdity. The proposal we all know was put forward and pushed neither by Russia, nor the EU, but by the US as a reward for years of good service. But the decision is lunacy itself. The guiding question could only have been: who is the most profoundly resented and bitterly hated man in the Middle East? Bar Bush, the honour could only have gone to Blair.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBlair is said to have offered himself forward for the job in one of his private conversations with Bush, who then proceeded to arm wrestle the Quartet to agree the appointment. But he has no idea of how deeply loathed he is in the region to which he wishes to be dispatched as peace envoy. When Arabs speak of Bush they refer to Blair as his tail and mouthpiece. The difference between the two in their eyes is between the master and his loyal servant. One lays down the policies, the other markets them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOnce more Blair’s boundless arrogance blinds him to what appears as clear as daylight to others. In the Middle East, his name is associated with catastrophe, with the inferno he has helped create in Iraq. For that is exactly what Iraq is today, whatever Blair may think, shrouded in a cocoon of hubris as he is. A recently issued Global Policy Forum report (June 2007) paints a hellish picture of violence, destruction of civil authority and cultural heritage, anarchy, insecurity, and poverty. It documents how hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died (500,000), more than 4 million have been displaced, including over 2 million (2.2 million) that have fled the country.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tEt ainsi de suite La malheureuse Soumaya n’en croit ni ses yeux, ni ses oreilles. Elle se pince, elle \u00e9crit et \u00e9crit encore : est-ce possible? Ont-ils nomm\u00e9 le type le plus ha\u00ef de tous les Arabes du MO, derri\u00e8re Bush, mais vraiment tout juste derri\u00e8re? Est-ce possible? Ont-ils nomm\u00e9 le symbole de la guerre et de l’injustice pour r\u00e9tablir la paix dans la justice?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tOui, ch\u00e8re Soumaya, c’est possible. Ils l’ont fait parce qu’ils n’ont rien \u00e0 voir avec la r\u00e9alit\u00e9, avec la souffrance des gens, avec la finesse politique, avec le bon sens, avec tout \u00e7a… Cette pauvre civilisation occidentale \u00e0 laquelle nous appartenons, civilisation en loques, absolument sans perspectives, qui se nourrit de ses derni\u00e8res vanit\u00e9s comme on suce un sang appauvri, d’une stupidit\u00e9 si aveugle qu’elle vous ferait ricaner un mal-voyant qui court d’un rire grin\u00e7ant de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9. Un conseil, Soumaya : il vaut mieux en rire qu’en pleurer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 27 juin 2007 \u00e0 11H06<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ah oui, on oubliait : TB est nomm\u00e9 repr\u00e9sentant dans les terres d\u00e9mocratisables du Moyen-Orient poussi\u00e9reux du formidable quartette symphonique de la civilisation occidentale et assimil\u00e9e. Histoire de remettre de l’ordre au MO. Faut-il commenter cela ? Laissons la plume \u00e0 Soumaya Ghannoushi, dans le Guardian d’aujourd’hui : \u00abWhen you hear the news of Tony… <\/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":[705,3316,3317,6792],"class_list":["post-68944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-moyen","tag-orient","tag-quartette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68944","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=68944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}