Jeremy Scahill, dont l’article dans le Guardian<\/em> est signal\u00e9 et pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 plus haut dans cette rubrique<\/a>, a une th\u00e8se sur le fameux (mais pas assez connu) discours<\/a> de Rumsfeld, le 10 septembre 2001. Il la pr\u00e9sente dans son livre Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/em>, comme dans cet article qui reprend lui-m\u00eame des extraits du livre. Il fait de ce discours de Rumsfeld l’\u00e9l\u00e9ment fondateur de la privatisation \u00e0 outrance des guerres am\u00e9ricanistes.Scahilll avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 expos\u00e9 cette th\u00e8se dans un article de The Nation<\/em>, que nous avions signal\u00e9s (et l’article et la th\u00e8se) en avril dernier, toujours dans cette rubrique Bloc-Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tScahill pr\u00e9sente \u00e0 nouveau la th\u00e8se dans l’article du Guardian<\/em>, sous le titre de \u00abHow Rumsfeld paved the way for Blackwater<\/em>\u00bb Il s’agit bien s\u00fbr d’une th\u00e8se et non d’une certitude. Rumsfeld avait-il cette id\u00e9e de privatiser les arm\u00e9es et les guerres futures comme signification principale de ce discours? Rumsfeld faisait-il ce discours du 10 septembre en pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 l’attaque du 11 septembre, n’importe quelle attaque type 9\/11 qui aurait pu se produire, ou celle-ci pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment dont il aurait connu la pr\u00e9paration, \u00e0 la pr\u00e9paration de laquelle il aurait m\u00eame particip\u00e9? Ce sont des questons sans r\u00e9ponses assur\u00e9es pour l’instant. Une ceritude, par contre, si l’hypoth\u00e8se de Scahill est juste, est bien celle-ci: au lieu de dompter la b\u00eate (la bureaucratie du Pentagone), Rumsfeld l’aurait hypertrophi\u00e9e en lui adjoignant cete composante monstrueuse de la privatisation de la guerre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe world was a very different place on September 10 2001, when Donald Rumsfeld stepped on to the podium at the Pentagon to deliver one of his first major addresses as defense secretary under President George W Bush. For most Americans, there was no such thing as al-Qaida, and Saddam Hussein was still the president of Iraq. Rumsfeld had served in the post once before under President Gerald Ford, from 1975 to 1977 and he returned to the job in 2001 with ambitious visions. That September day, in the first year of the Bush administration, Rumsfeld addressed the Pentagon officials in charge of overseeing the high-stakes business of defence contracting managing the Halliburtons, DynCorps and Bechtels. The secretary stood before a gaggle of former corporate executives from Enron, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Aerospace Corporation whom he had tapped as his top deputies at the department of defense, and he issued a declaration of war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America, Rumsfeld thundered. This adversary is one of the world’s last bastions of central planning. It governs by dictating five-year plans. From a single capital, it attempts to impose its demands across time zones, continents, oceans and beyond. With brutal consistency, it stifles free thought and crushes new ideas. It disrupts the defence of the United States and places the lives of men and women in uniform at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPausing briefly for dramatic effect, Rumsfeld – himself a veteran cold warrior told his new staff, Perhaps this adversary sounds like the former Soviet Union, but that enemy is gone: our foes are more subtle and implacable today. You may think I’m describing one of the last decrepit dictators of the world. But their day, too, is almost past, and they cannot match the strength and size of this adversary. The adversary’s much closer to home. It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbRumsfeld called for a wholesale shift in the running of the Pentagon, supplanting the old department of defense bureaucracy with a new model, one based on the private sector. The problem, Rumsfeld said, was that unlike businesses, governments can’t die, so we need to find other incentives for bureaucracy to adapt and improve. The stakes, he declared, were dire a matter of life and death, ultimately, every American’s.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThat day, Rumsfeld announced a major initiative to streamline the use of the private sector in the waging of America’s wars and predicted his initiative would meet fierce resistance. Some might ask, How in the world could the secretary of defense attack the Pentagon in front of its people?’ Rumsfeld told his audience. To them I reply, I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe next morning, the Pentagon would literally be attacked as American Airlines Flight 77 a Boeing 757 smashed into its western wall. Rumsfeld would famously assist rescue workers in pulling bodies from the rubble. But it didn’t take long for him to seize the almost unthinkable opportunity presented by 9\/11 to put his personal war on the fast track.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 1er ao\u00fbt 2007 \u00e0 10H16<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeremy Scahill, dont l’article dans le Guardian est signal\u00e9 et pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 plus haut dans cette rubrique, a une th\u00e8se sur le fameux (mais pas assez connu) discours de Rumsfeld, le 10 septembre 2001. 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