annus horribilis<\/em> par excellence, l’arch\u00e9type de la catastrophe. La description g\u00e9n\u00e9rale est enlev\u00e9e, imp\u00e9rative, tr\u00e8s rythm\u00e9e et convaincante.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe same mood of national narcissism brought about America’s strategic reverses. The rest of the world, Washington reasons, need only be like us to live happily. Until the ghost of James Baker III possessed Washington a year ago, through the installation of Robert Gates as defense secretary, American policy was in the hands of the Sorcerer’s Apprentices of the Reagan years. America had the magic formula of the 1980s, they reckoned, and all they only needed to sprinkle the Fairy Dust of democracy upon recalcitrant countries in order to make them fly.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abTo prop up its failed Iraqi project until the November elections, Washington has made material concessions to Iran and Syria, its worst enemies. In return for restricting support for the Iraqi insurgencies they incubated from the beginning, Iran has a free pass to continue enriching uranium, and Syria has a free hand in Lebanon. America swore that it would never permit Iranian nuclear development, and that it would suppress the Iranian-Syrian puppet militia of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has done neither.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBy endorsing the Islamists in Turkey as a force for democracy, Washington has earned the contempt of the Islamists, as well as the enmity of the secularists who feel betrayed. But nothing compares to America’s humiliation in Pakistan. After sending the unfortunate Benazir Bhutto to her death as the instrument of American democracy, Washington has no choice but to cling all the harder to President Pervez Musharraf, who everyone from Hillary Clinton to the taxi driver who took me to the airport believes to be complicit in Bhutto’s assassination.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe global war on terror has given birth to Islamist monsters in Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq. The so-called color revolutions are stillborn. Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution has none but homonymic virtues, as the US State Department will cede her to Syria. But the single most stupid and destructive act of American diplomacy in the past seven years has been the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, for it persuaded Putin never to trust the West under any circumstances, ever again.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tToutes ces choses, ces diverses d\u00e9routes am\u00e9ricanistes, Spengler les d\u00e9finit de cette fa\u00e7on qu’on ne peut trouver plus juste: \u00abThe Americans<\/em> [] have met the enemy, and it is them.<\/em>\u00bb Cette analyse remarquable de Spengler est balanc\u00e9e par une analyse de la politique de Poutine et un portrait du pr\u00e9sident russe. Ne s’embarrassant nullement de la pens\u00e9e pleurnicharde et moraliste courante chez les commentateurs occidentaux et pour laquelle il semble avoir un salutaire m\u00e9pris, Spengler ne tarit pas d’\u00e9loge pour Vladimir Poutine. L’on a rarement lu, et encore plus d’un commentateur anglo-saxon, une analyse aussi r\u00e9aliste et pertinente, r\u00e9sum\u00e9 par ce mot : \u00abthe most talented political leader of our time<\/em>\u00bb, et magnifi\u00e9 par cette r\u00e9f\u00e9rence: \u00abWorking from a position of weakness, Russia’s president is the closest the modern world comes to the insidious strategic genius of a Cardinal Richelieu.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tConclusion de Spengler:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abPutin will finish his second term of office as Russian president early in 2008, just<\/em>[ten months] when the next American president takes office. There is plenty of time to naturalize him as an American citizenand amend the constitution to permit a foreign-born president. The alternative is to elect another incarnation of the political type that got America into trouble in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb That is the sort of strategic thinking America needs. So my endorsement for the next president of the United States goes to Vladimir Putin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne final note Putin doesn’t speak much English. But that shouldn’t disqualify him. Neither does George W Bush.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 9 janvier 2008 \u00e0 06H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il nous faut vous signaler avec insistance un coup de ma\u00eetre, lui-m\u00eame signal\u00e9 par notre lecteur nn (le 8 janvier sur notre Forum) avec qui nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 parfois en d\u00e9saccord, semble-t-il, mais pour cette fois compl\u00e8tement d’accord Il s’agit d’un article de Spengler (anonyme), sur Atimes.com le m\u00eame 8 janvier. Il nous est parfois… <\/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":[868,7361,916,7360,4351],"class_list":["post-69588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bush","tag-nn","tag-poutine","tag-richelieu","tag-spengler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69588","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=69588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}