La notion que les USA font ce qu’ils veulent, o\u00f9 ils veulent, comme ils veulent, est largement renvoy\u00e9e dans le rayon des accessoires, du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des dodo bird<\/em> (\u00ab seems largely to have gone the way of the dodo bird<\/em>\u00bb), nous dit Jim Lobe, dans une chronique du jour<\/a>, sur Antiwar.com<\/em> et sur IPS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tJim Lobe nous donne cette chronique sur le d\u00e9clin de la puissance US, mettant en \u00e9vidence qu’aujourd’hui le principal probl\u00e8me est de savoir comment Washington va g\u00e9rer ce d\u00e9clin, faire en sorte qu’il ne soit pas trop brutal, trop d\u00e9vastateur, etc. Lisez ce passage de cette chronique, o\u00f9 Lobe rappelle les jappements d’hubris<\/em> des divers historiens et chroniqueurs appoint\u00e9s, il y a seulement 5 ans, et ce qu’il en reste aujourd’hui, avec des noms comme Paul Kennedy, Krauthammer, Kagan, tous ces intellectuels qui restent hautement respect\u00e9s en Europe comme experts imbattables. (On dirait que l’erreur de la prospective semblant \u00eatre d\u00e9sormais la marque de la sagesse et du bon jugement Tous ces experts et historiens, apr\u00e8s s’\u00eatre si compl\u00e8tement tromp\u00e9s en toutes choses, gardent pignon sur rue et sont aujourd’hui comme hier consult\u00e9s avec un respect sans fin. M\u00e9ditez cette \u00e9trange r\u00e9alit\u00e9.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAt the time<\/em> [2002], Kennedy himself suggested that Washington may have somehow escaped the laws of history, noting that the sheer size of the U.S. economy, and its technological prowess and military dominance, were unprecedented. I’ve gone back in history and never seen anything like it, he exclaimed at one seminar.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPeople are now coming out of the closet on the word empire,’ exulted Krauthammer. The fact is no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically, and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhat a difference five years and an invasion and bungled occupation of Iraq make! References to the Roman Empire at this point are more likely to refer to its decline than to its power an observation confirmed even by Donald Kagan, a dean of neoconservatism and Kennedy’s colleague at Yale, whose sons, Robert and Frederick, have been champions of the Bush Doctrine and the Iraq War.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbI’ve argued that not since the Roman Empire has anyone had such extraordinary power as the United States after the Cold War, Kagan told Kitfield. But all of the elements of our strength are now being challenged, and it’s perfectly possible that we are seeing a relative decline in U.S. power that will prove lasting.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n