Bush Calls on France for Help<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tEn fait, le texte concerne tr\u00e8s peu le probl\u00e8me sp\u00e9cifique de la France. Il expose en d\u00e9tails le probl\u00e8me que rencontrent les USA et l’OTAN en Afghanistan et le besoin qu’ont ces deux parties de troupes suppl\u00e9mentaires. A un moment est effectivement \u00e9voqu\u00e9e la France, parce que la France est, avec l’Allemagne \u00e9ventuellement, le seul pays qui pourrait fournir un contingent suppl\u00e9mentaire important. Voici le passage, o\u00f9 l’on note un membre de phrase extr\u00eamement sibyllin (soulign\u00e9 par nous en gras).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abWith all available U.S. troops tied down in Iraq, the U.S. is using NATO soldiers as mercenaries to try to counter a resurgent Taliban. Europeans are tiring of their role as an European proxy for America’s legions, and the NATO commander speaks of a NATO defeat in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNATO was an alliance created to resist a Soviet invasion of Europe. The U.S. has kept an unnecessary NATO alive for 18 years as a source of troops for its foreign adventures. Europeans dislike being mercenaries for an American empire, especially one that slaughters civilians.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbDesperate for troops, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to scare Europeans with the threat of international terrorism, but Europeans know that the best way to bring terrorism to Europe is to send troops to fight Muslims for the Americans. Whether Gates will get the German and French soldiers that he so desperately needs depends on whether the U.S. can<\/em> give the German and French leaders, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, enough billions of dollars to divide among their parties<\/em><\/strong> to embolden them to override public opinion and send their soldiers to die for U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbGates told Europe that NATO’s survival is at stake: We must not we cannot become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are not. In a rare bit of honesty for an American government official, Gates admitted at the NATO conference in Munich last week that Europeans’ anger at the U.S. over Iraq is the reason Europe won’t send enough troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, thus putting what Gates disingenuously called the international mission in Afghanistan at risk of failure.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tQue faire d’une telle phrase concernant Merkel et Sarkozy? Paul Craig Roberts, ancien secr\u00e9taire au tr\u00e9sor dans l’administration Reagan, est en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral bien inform\u00e9 m\u00eame s’il \u00e9crit parfois d’une fa\u00e7on emport\u00e9e. On dira simplement, pour commentaire, que Washington montre bien de l’agitation concernant l’Afghanistan, et craint effectivement de graves prolongements si une aide cons\u00e9quente n’est pas apport\u00e9e, pour que de tels bruits circulent, voire que de tels projets s’\u00e9laborent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 13 f\u00e9vrier 2008 \u00e0 08H26<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’Afghanistan est l’objet de toutes les sp\u00e9culations, plus concernant les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations m\u00e9fiantes et les incertitudes agressives entre alli\u00e9s qu’\u00e0 propos de la situation sur le terrain. Parmi ces d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations et ces incertitudes, il y a la position de la France, avec les pressions constantes des USA et de l’OTAN pour un engagement fran\u00e7ais plus important.… <\/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":[3236,4750,4633,3140,4728,4590],"class_list":["post-69674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-afghanistan","tag-craig","tag-merkel","tag-paul","tag-roberts","tag-sarkozy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674","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=69674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}