2 janvier<\/a>, UPI rapportait la r\u00e9action furieuse du s\u00e9nateur Joseph Biden, d\u00e9mocrate et pr\u00e9sident de la commission des relations ext\u00e9rieures du S\u00e9nat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe decision to go ahead with the sale shows how dangerously misguided President Bush’s policy is, Biden said in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHow can the White House even think of green-lighting such a sale at such an incredibly sensitive time? he said, referring to the political turmoil in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who hoped to become prime minister.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis is the time we should be putting the pressure on the government and military to fully investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and to hold free and fair elections not let them off the hook, Biden said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAlthough the terms of the sale were not yet public, he noted that the recently passed Defense Appropriations bill bars any assistance to Pakistan for weapons sales that are not for counter-terrorism purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIf any US aid is involved, the sale is illegal, he said. If the sale involves no US assistance, it is technically legal but fundamentally misguided.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tComme dit Richard Fisher, vice pr\u00e9sident de l’Assessment and Strategy Center, \u00abWhile the announcement of the F-16 sale may be part of a normal sales program, its timing was simply unfortunate.<\/em>\u00bb La machine bureaucratique du Pentagone est \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard inexorable. Une intervention de derni\u00e8re minute, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 pakistanais, avait sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 qu’on repousse la l’annonce publique du contrat d’un mois au moins, par crainte de ce que les Pakistanais nommaient une mauvaise publicit\u00e9, sans pour autant que l’ex\u00e9cution du contrat soit affect\u00e9 par ce d\u00e9lai de pure communication. La demande s’est heurt\u00e9e \u00e0 une fin de non-recevoir. L’annonce \u00e9tait programm\u00e9e pour le 31 d\u00e9cembre, elle devait \u00eatre faite. Elle fut donc faite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 4 janvier 2008 \u00e0 09H21<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il est vrai que le Pentagone, qui fait grand cas de la communication dans toutes les activit\u00e9s publiques, aurait pu s’aviser qu’il se passait quelque chose. Le 31 d\u00e9cembre 2007, le d\u00e9partement de la d\u00e9fense annon\u00e7ait la signature d’un contrat portant sur 18 chasseurs F-16C\/D Block 52 destin\u00e9s \u00e0 la force a\u00e9rienne pakistanaise, pour $498,2… <\/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":[3015,1015,3379],"class_list":["post-69570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-communication","tag-f-16","tag-pakistan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69570","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=69570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}