26 ao\u00fbt<\/a>. Elle commence son commentaire par ce rappel \u00e0 l’ordre, aux grands principes, \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abSince when did American military commanders start inserting themselves into political debates? When did men in uniform honored, but never elected start giving the American people lectures on politics? Evidently, when the Bush administration told them to, as part of its surge against American public opinion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut officers should be reminded: Just following orders is no justification when an order goes against the American historical and Constitutional tradition. And it’s also in statute, specifically, the National Security Act of 1947, the preamble of which reads:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress…to provide for… unified direction under civilian control.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnd that means you, Major General Benjamin R. Mixon, commander of American forces in northern Iraq. You are a repeat offender. In one such instance, on July 13, Mixon ends his response to a question regarding the much-debated decrease in troop levels by delivering these instructions to Congress as it seeks to craft an Iraq strategy:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb…[It] needs to be well thought out, and it cannot be a strategy that is based on ‘well, we need to leave.’ That’s not a strategy, that’s a withdrawal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn looking at Mixon’s words, which is more obvious: his condescension toward Congress or his contempt for Congress?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Suivent d’autres exemples, d’autres d\u00e9clarations. Un g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (le pr\u00e9sident du comit\u00e9 des chefs d’\u00e9tat-major, rien que \u00e7a) annonce qu’il recommandera une r\u00e9duction des forces en Irak. Un de ses subordonn\u00e9s, en Irak, lui dit quasiment qu’il s’agit d’une fuite, d’une couardise. Who cares<\/em>? Guerre civile, \u00e9crivons-nous par go\u00fbt de la formule. D\u00e9sordre civil, devrions-nous \u00e9crire \u00e0 l’image de notre d\u00e9but de ce commentaire. Les interventions se font en toute impunit\u00e9, elles font m\u00eame partie du jeu, That’s the name of the game<\/em>. Aucune sanction, aucun rappel \u00e0 l’ordre \u00e0 l’horizon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’\u00e9rosion des structures l\u00e9gales et des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences morales de la Grande R\u00e9publique est, dans ces conditions, absolument vertigineuse. Tout fait d\u00e9sormais partie de la bataille politicienne, tout est utilis\u00e9 dans le sens des int\u00e9r\u00eats particuliers et personnels. Nous avons d\u00e9pass\u00e9 le stade du complot ou du coup de force possible. A-t-il jamais exist\u00e9 d’ailleurs? Nous en doutons, le d\u00e9sordre ayant finalement pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9, emp\u00each\u00e9 et \u00e9touff\u00e9 la conscience de ce d\u00e9sordre et l’\u00e9ventuelle intention de r\u00e9agir. Et puis, c’est la Grande R\u00e9publique, o\u00f9 le coup de force n’est pas de mise. La vertu m\u00e8ne \u00e0 tout, y compris au vice supr\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tA Washington, le d\u00e9sordre r\u00e8gne, et, finalement, GW en est le souverain sans pouvoir, le ma\u00eetre de c\u00e9r\u00e9monie. Il dure, donc il existe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 27 ao\u00fbt 2007 07H24<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Qui commande ? Plus personne. GW Bush a fait du d\u00e9sordre qu’il a laiss\u00e9 s’instituer, ou qu’il n’a pu faire autrement que de laisser s’instituer, un facteur important sinon le facteur fondamental de la vie politique washingtonienne. Cela ne lui est pas d\u00e9savantageux et peut-\u00eatre l’a-t-il laiss\u00e9 s’instituer avec le secret et inconscient espoir qu’il… <\/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":[2880,3356,5160,2645,3248],"class_list":["post-69157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-civile","tag-desordre","tag-generaux","tag-guerre","tag-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69157","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=69157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}