{"id":68961,"date":"2007-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/02\/gordon-brown-et-linevitable-soupcon-de-washington\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T00:00:00","slug":"gordon-brown-et-linevitable-soupcon-de-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/02\/gordon-brown-et-linevitable-soupcon-de-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown et l&rsquo;in\u00e9vitable soup\u00e7on de Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Le temps de la suspicion est n\u00e9 entre Washington et Londres. Question de perception, apr\u00e8s l&rsquo;\u00e8re du pharamineux Tony Blair. Le nouveau Premier ministre, bien qu&rsquo;il ait ici ou l\u00e0, dans telle ou telle d\u00e9claration, pris les pr\u00e9cautions d&rsquo;usage pour tenter de rassurer les alli\u00e9s US, est n\u00e9cessairement soumis au soup\u00e7on. En l&rsquo;occurrence, le soup\u00e7on porte sur le choix de certains ministres dans le remaniement minist\u00e9riel qui a accompagn\u00e9 l&rsquo;arriv\u00e9e de Gordon Brown au pouvoir. Ces ministres, par ailleurs plac\u00e9s \u00e0 des postes importants, sont per\u00e7us \u00e0 Washington comme anti-guerres (pas assez enthousiastes pour la guerre en Irak) et, par cons\u00e9quent, semblent justifier le soup\u00e7on par leur seule pr\u00e9sence. Le soup\u00e7on touche \u00e9galement la premi\u00e8re rencontre Brown-Bush depuis l&rsquo;entr\u00e9e en fonction de Brown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tUn article du <em>Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article2013359.ece\" class=\"gen\">aujourd&rsquo;hui<\/a>, pr\u00e9sente ce cas du soup\u00e7on. D&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on assez caract\u00e9ristique, il est compos\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de sources pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment identifi\u00e9es comme venant du Pentagone. C&rsquo;est le signe que, dans l&rsquo;architecture aujourd&rsquo;hui branlante et compl\u00e8tement \u00e9clat\u00e9e du pouvoir \u00e0 Washington, c&rsquo;est le centre de pouvoir le plus puissant qui s&rsquo;inqui\u00e8te des tendances du gouvernement Brown, et, sans doute, pour des supputations bien concr\u00e8tes (crainte d&rsquo;une r\u00e9duction de l&rsquo;engagement militaire britannique, voire crainte au niveau de la coop\u00e9ration militaire). Si l&rsquo;on tient compte \u00e9galement du caract\u00e8re assez peu id\u00e9ologique d&rsquo;un Pentagone plac\u00e9 sous la direction du mod\u00e9r\u00e9 Gates, c&rsquo;est le signe que ce soup\u00e7on \u00e0 l&rsquo;encontre de Brown a peu \u00e0 voir avec les positions de Brown. Il se nourrit de lui-m\u00eame, par le seul fait que Brown n&rsquo;est pas Blair, que Blair a \u00e9t\u00e9 per\u00e7u \u00e0 Washington comme insurpassable en fait d&rsquo;alignement sur Washington, que tout PM qui n&rsquo;est pas Blair est par cons\u00e9quent n\u00e9cessairement soup\u00e7onnable. Plus qu&rsquo;un jugement reposant sur des faits, c&rsquo;est une m\u00e9canique logique \u00e0 l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur d&rsquo;un syst\u00e8me qui a ses propres conceptions et sa perception sp\u00e9cifique. On doute que Brown soit quitte avant longtemps du soup\u00e7on de n&rsquo;\u00eatre pas Blair et on se doute que ce soup\u00e7on, dans l&rsquo;atmosph\u00e8re parano\u00efaque de Washington, ne pourra que continuer \u00e0 prosp\u00e9rer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tVoici quelques remarques du <em>Times<\/em> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Although the new Prime Minister emphasises his belief in the importance of Britain&rsquo;s relationship with President Bush and the US, he has also delivered what one Pentagon source described yesterday as some conflicting signals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The same source said that eyebrows had been raised over the decision to give a senior ministerial job at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Lord Malloch-Brown, the former Deputy UN Secretary-General, who has attacked Mr Bush&rsquo;s megaphone diplomacy and America&rsquo;s attitude to multilateralism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>John Bolton, the former US Ambassador at the UN, with whom Lord Malloch-Brown clashed repeatedly, has already described the appointment as an inauspicious beginning to the new Government.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb[Foreign Secretary  Margaret Beckett] <em>was subsequently replaced by David Miliband, who is known to harbour doubts over the Iraq war. Last year he intervened in a Cabinet meeting to question why Britain was not taking a stronger position against Israel&rsquo;s military action in Lebanon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The White House will have noted also the appointment last week of John Denham, who resigned from government over the Iraq war, and Harriet Harman, Labour&rsquo;s new deputy leader, who has suggested that the party apologise for supporting the invasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Mr Brown, who had a carefully arranged drop-by meeting with Mr Bush and his national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, earlier this year, is expected to have more formal talks with the President before the end of the summer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Downing Street indicated that the trip could be as early as next month. Sources in Washington have suggested that Mr Brown may prefer to delay until September when he could draw the sting of being seen with Mr Bush  a hugely unpopular figure in Britain  by combining the visit with the Clinton Foundation&rsquo;s annual conference in New York and a meeting of the UN General Assembly.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 2 juillet 2007 \u00e0 06H05<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le temps de la suspicion est n\u00e9 entre Washington et Londres. Question de perception, apr\u00e8s l&rsquo;\u00e8re du pharamineux Tony Blair. Le nouveau Premier ministre, bien qu&rsquo;il ait ici ou l\u00e0, dans telle ou telle d\u00e9claration, pris les pr\u00e9cautions d&rsquo;usage pour tenter de rassurer les alli\u00e9s US, est n\u00e9cessairement soumis au soup\u00e7on. En l&rsquo;occurrence, le soup\u00e7on&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":[705,4038,6809,6810,3194,3345,6808,3344],"class_list":["post-68961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-brown","tag-malloch-brown","tag-miliband","tag-pentagone","tag-relationships","tag-soupcon","tag-special"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961","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=68961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}