{"id":69348,"date":"2007-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/22\/contrastes-usa\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"contrastes-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/22\/contrastes-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrastes, USA…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il est difficile de trouver co\u00efncidence (?) plus appropri\u00e9e, qu’entre le discours d’un Cheney quasiment hallucin\u00e9e, dimanche, et l’interview du pr\u00e9sident du comit\u00e9 des chefs d’\u00e9tat-major (Joint Chief of Staff), l’amiral Mullen qui vient de prendre ses fonctions. Cheney, qu’on pourrait d\u00e9crire avec des \u00e9clairs dans les yeux, semble effectivement sur le bord de l’apoplexie \u00e0 l’id\u00e9e de pouvoir attaquer l’Iran. Mullen, lui, freine comme font tous les gens au Pentagone, du secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Gates aux divers amiraux et g\u00e9n\u00e9raux.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tJim Lobe rapporte et d\u00e9crit, aujourd’hui<\/a>, l’intervention de Cheney, qui repr\u00e9sente un sommet de l’offensive rh\u00e9torique de l’administration (It’s rhetoric, stupid<\/em>, selon GW<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIn the harshest speech against Iran given by a top Bush administration official to date, Vice President Dick Cheney Sunday warned the Islamic Republic of serious consequences if it did not freeze its nuclear program and accused it of direct involvement in the killings of Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGiven the nature of Iran’s rulers, the declarations of the Iranian president, and the trouble the regime is causing throughout the region including the direct involvement in the killing of Americans our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions,\u00a0\u00bb Cheney warned in a major policy address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose serious consequences, he added. The United States joins other nations in sending a clear message: We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn his nearly 30-minute speech, an uncompromising defense of the Bush administration’s record in the Middle East, Cheney also claimed that, with Washington’s surge strategy working well against al-Qaeda in Iraq, the greatest strategic threat that Iraq’s Shi’ites face today in consolidating their rightful role in Iraq’s new democracy is the subversive activities of the Iranian regime.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’amiral Mullen \u00e9tait interview\u00e9 par le New York , dans les \u00e9ditions d’aujourd’hui<\/a> du quotidien. Mullen vient d’effectuer une tourn\u00e9e d’inspection dans les grands th\u00e9\u00e2tres d’op\u00e9ration, pour marquer son entr\u00e9e en fonction \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence du JCS. Ses intervention sur l’Iran, sur la possibilit\u00e9 d’une attaque, etc., sont faites sur un ton radicalement diff\u00e9rent de celui de Cheney. On trouve, marqu\u00e9e comme elle le fut rarement au travers de proximit\u00e9s de dates, l’opposition entre militaires et civils. Subsiste et ne cesse de s’accentuer, bien s\u00fbr, ce fait extraordinaire des officiers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux interf\u00e9rant directement par leurs commentaires sur la politique de la direction civile.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCi-dessous les extraits de l’interview o\u00f9 l’amiral Mullen parle de l’Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab[Mullen] rejected the counsel of those who might urge immediate attacks inside Iran to destroy nuclear installations or to stop the flow of explosives that end up as powerful roadside bombs in Iraq or Afghanistan, killing American troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWith America at war in two Muslim countries, he said, attacking a third Islamic nation in the region has extraordinary challenges and risks associated with it. The military option, he said, should be a last resort.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut Admiral Mullen warned any nation, including Iran, not to mistake restraint for lack of commitment or lack of concern or lack of capability. He described the Air Force and Navy as America’s strategic reserve, ready to carry out a full range of combat operations beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbHe pushed back against those who are calling for military action against Iran’s nuclear program, saying that diplomatic and economic pressure must take precedence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe threat to American and allied troops from high-powered explosives from Iran, he said, should be countered by halting their flow into Iraq or Afghanistan across the borders, and with attacks on those bomb-making and bomb-planting cells inside Iraq or Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThat said, that doesn’t get at the source of it, he acknowledged. Asked whether the American military should aim at sites inside Iran if intelligence indicated that such interdiction could halt the flow of those bombs, he said the risks could be very, very high.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWe’re in a conflict in two countries out there right now, he added. We have to be incredibly thoughtful about the potential of in fact getting into a conflict with a third country in that part of the world.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 22 octobre 2007 \u00e0 18H37<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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