12 octobre<\/a>, une analyse d\u00e9taill\u00e9e de la crise qu’on peut consulter avec profit. Juan Cole est un excellent sp\u00e9cialiste des questions politiques et strat\u00e9giqsues du Moyen-Orient, d’autant plus int\u00e9ressant qu’il n’est pas li\u00e9 \u00e0 un des r\u00e9seaux d’expertise de Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tQuant \u00e0 l’aspect le plus intrigant et le plus pol\u00e9mique, Cole nous donne l’explication attendue. L’intervention du Congr\u00e8s est simplement due \u00e0 l’imbroglio des lobbies<\/em> washingtoniens, avec leurs tendances, leurs concurrences, leurs affrontements internes, avec les parlementaires les plus corrompus de l’histoire de la d\u00e9mocratie et ainsi de suite. La chose n’a aucun sens r\u00e9el, comme toutes les choses importantes aujourd’hui \u00e0 Washington. Elle suit la fortune de l’argent et de la corruption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tNous donnons ici la partie qui concerne l’intervention du Congr\u00e8s mais le reste de l’analyse m\u00e9rite d’\u00eatre lu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abThen the US Congress abruptly condemned modern Kemalist Turkey for the Armenian genocide, committed by the Ottoman Empire, provoking Ankara to withdraw its ambassador from Washington. I have long held that Turkey should acknowledge the genocide, which killed hundreds of thousands and displaced more hundreds of thousands. The Turkish government could then point out that it was committed by a tyrannical and oppressive government the Ottoman Empire against which the Kemalists also fought a long and determined war to establish a modern republic. I can’t understand Ankara’s unwillingness to distance itself from a predecessor it doesn’t even think well of the junta of Enver Pasha and the later pusillanimity of the sultan (the capital is in Ankara and not Istanbul in part for this very reason!)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut no dispassionate observer could avoid the conclusion that the Congressional vote condemning Turkey came at a most inopportune time for US-Turkish diplomacy, at a time when Turks were already raw from watching the US upset all the apple carts in their neighborhood, unleash existential threats against them, cause the rise of Salafi radicalism next door, coddle terrorists killing them, coddle the separatist KRG, and strengthen the Shiite ayatollahs on their borders.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Congressional vote came despite the discomfort of elements of the Israel lobby with recognizing the mass killing of Armenians as a genocide. Andrew E. Mathis explains Abraham Foxman’s intellectually bankrupt vacillations on this issue. Foxman and others of his ideological orientation have been forced grudgingly to back off their genocide denial in the case of the Armenians by a general shift in opinion among the American public, and his change of position may have removed any fears among congressional representatives that the Israel lobby would punish them for their vote. (Turkey and Israel have long had a strong military and diplomatic relationship, which the Israel lobby had earlier attempted to preserve by lobbying congress on Turkey’s behalf with regard to some issues. But the Israel lobby is now split between pro-Kurdish factions and pro-Turkish factions, and the pro-Kurdish ones appear to be winning out. Richard Perle & Michael Rubin of AEI are examples of the pro-Turkish Neoconservative strain in the Israel lobby. They are losing.)<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 15 octobre 2007 \u00e0 15H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La crise actuelle entre la Turquie et les USA est certainement d’une grande importance, mais pas n\u00e9cessairement quelques-unes de ses causes. Certains ont pu s’interroger, notamment, \u00e0 propos de l’intervention du Congr\u00e8s dans l’affaire arm\u00e9nienne, au plus mauvais moment possible pour le d\u00e9roulement de cette crise. Sur son site Informed Comment, Juan Cole donne, le… <\/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":[7121,1087,3090,3816,2613],"class_list":["post-69324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-armenie","tag-cole","tag-influence","tag-lobby","tag-turquie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69324","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=69324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}