7 ao\u00fbt<\/a>). Effectivement, le terme correspond bien au ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne en cours \u00e0 Washington, qui devrait atteindre son apog\u00e9e en septembre, lorsque le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-miracle viendra pr\u00e9senter au Congr\u00e8s son rapport sur la situation en Irak. C’est une situation tr\u00e8s particuli\u00e8re, qui semble faire d\u00e9pendre aujourd’hui la perception de l’\u00e9volution des \u00e9v\u00e9nements en Irak d’un seul homme, dont Jeff Huber nous r\u00e9v\u00e8le qu’il n’est pas encore parvenu \u00e0 marcher sur l’eau: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abSupporters of Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, hail him as our best and brightest military officer and one who knows how to conduct counter-insurgency warfare. His detractors seem of the opinion that the thing Petraeus knows how to do best is make himself look good.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhile some praise Petraeus for his administration of Mosul and Ninevah after major hostilities ceased, others blame him for allowing the insurgency to establish itself in those areas. His tenure as the officer in charge of training Iraqi troops and police clearly did not go well, despite his praise in a 2004 Washington Post article titled Battling for Iraq of the progress being made by the fledgling Iraqi security forces under his tutelage. Of the article, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote General Petraeus, without saying anything falsifiable, conveyed the totally misleading impression, highly convenient for his political masters, that victory was just around the corner. It also appears that Petraeus is at least partly responsible for arming of Iraq’s insurgent groups. According to a recently released Government Accountability Office report, the Pentagon has lost track of roughly 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols that were issued to Iraqi forces while Petraeus was in charge of their training. More than 200,000 pieces of body armor and helmets distributed to Iraqis during that period are also unaccounted for.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs the U.S. four-star in charge of Iraq, Petraeus has shown a definite penchant for public relations, having staged a record setting Fourth of July reenlistment ceremony and a congressional shopping spree through an outdoor market in Baghdad, and treating journalists to an aerial tour of the city’s soccer games. Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks, a Petraeus fan, refers to the general as a force of nature, and often cites Petraeus’s fondness for challenging soldiers half his age to one-arm pushup contests. Like Ricks, I’m impressed that a general in his mid-fifties can outdo fit men half his age in tests of physical fitness, but all the one-arm pushups in the world won’t fix what’s broken in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIt’s not my purpose to run Petraeus down for the fun of it. Let’s face it, nobody makes it to level he has reached in the military without making a few enemies or mistakes, or without a certain flair for flash and self promotion. My point is that General Petraeus may be able to walk on his hands, but he can’t walk on water as Mr. Bush seems to want us to think.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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