{"id":69813,"date":"2008-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/08\/lotan-entre-baby-sitting-et-infantilisme\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"lotan-entre-baby-sitting-et-infantilisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/08\/lotan-entre-baby-sitting-et-infantilisme\/","title":{"rendered":"L’OTAN entre baby-sitting<\/em><\/strong> et infantilisme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parmi les tr\u00e8s nombreuses r\u00e9actions sur le sommet de Bucarest, nous signalons une s\u00e9rie de quatre sur le site de The National Interest<\/em> du 4 avril<\/a>. Successivement, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ted Galen Carpenter, Anatol Lieven et Charles A. Kupchan. Nikolas K. Gvosdev est plut\u00f4t optimiste (malgr\u00e9 des r\u00e9serves) sur les r\u00e9sultats du sommet, concluant ceci: \u00ab[A]ll in all, a good summit meetingand an important step in revitalizing transatlantic ties<\/em>\u00bb. Cet optimisme retenu est tout de m\u00eame un bel effort pour continuer \u00e0 prendre au s\u00e9rieux la politique occidentale. Il nous semble malheureusement peu convaincant et destin\u00e9 \u00e0 se perdre dans les futures frasques otaniennes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tKupchan est plus convaincant. Il a bien vu l’une des principales marques du sommet, provoqu\u00e9e par l’ent\u00eatante obstination de Bush d’imposer comme dossier fondamental l’\u00e9largissement \u00e0 la G\u00e9orgie et \u00e0 l’Ukraine. M\u00eame si son sentiment n’est pas n\u00e9cessairement le n\u00f4tre, un certain sentiment de regret qu’une telle situation s’installe, Kupchan voit juste lorsqu’il voir s’ouvrir une nouvelle \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les d\u00e9saccords entre les USA et l’Europe s’installent ouvertement au coeur de l’OTAN:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abA new day has certainly been opened for the alliance when its leading states part company on vital questions of which countries merit membership. To be sure, the Macedonian question is troublesome for the alliance, but not fundamental; the country will join the alliance as soon as the dispute over its name is resolved. But the disagreement over Ukraine and Georgia runs deeper. It is reflective of the alliance’s growing pains, the diverging priorities of the United States and its European allies, and the rising power of Russia.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCarpenter et Lieven sont sans aucun doute nos favoris. Surtout et essentiellement parce qu’ils ont tous deux saisi un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne essentiel, pour des raisons pas toujours semblables, selon des centres d’int\u00e9r\u00eat diff\u00e9rents, mais leur conclusion similaire n’en a que plus de prix. Ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, c’est l’extraordinaire ineptie, la profonde vacuit\u00e9 de la politique otanienne suscit\u00e9e par les USA. Les termes employ\u00e9s dans les deux titres vont parfaitement dans ce sens, pour qualifier cette politique: babysitting<\/em> pour Carpenter (\u00abThe Babysitter’s Club<\/em>\u00bb) et infantilisme pour Anatol Lieven (\u00abThree Faces of Infantilism: NATO’s Bucharest Summit<\/em>\u00bb). C’est effectivement un point que nous jugeons tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant que des experts de ce niveau en viennent \u00e0 utiliser les termes de d\u00e9rison qui importent pour qualifier la politique occidentale. Il n’est plus temps de dire qu’elle est mauvaise, faussaire et trompeuse, injuste et orient\u00e9e, ce qu’on sait depuis longtemps; il est temps de dire qu’elle est d\u00e9risoire, marqu\u00e9e par une vacuit\u00e9 extraordinaire, politique nulle et priv\u00e9e de toute perspective, accouch\u00e9e par des esprits d\u00e9pouill\u00e9s de toute raison, de bon sens et de sensibilit\u00e9 (pour des raisons diverses, esprits qui ont plus \u00e0 voir avec la corruption psychologique qu’avec la faiblesse et l’inintelligence).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t Ted Galen Carpenter nous parle de \u00abThe Babysitter’s Club<\/em>\u00bb. Carpenter d\u00e9signe par cette expression le fait d’ajouter \u00e0 l’OTAN des pays comme la Croatie et l’Albanie, ce qui accro\u00eet les risques de d\u00e9stabilisation pour l’Alliance et constitue un apport de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 absolument n\u00e9gatif. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe endorsement of NATO membership for Croatia and Albania confirms that the alliance has now entered the realm of farce. The military capabilities of those two countries are minuscule. According to the most recent edition of The Military Balance, published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Croatia’s military budget is a mere $875 million, and its military force consists of 17,660 active-duty personnel. Albania’s budget is $208 million, and its force is 11,020. They will augment Estonia’s $356 million and 4,100 troops, Latvia’s $471 million and 5,969 troops, Lithuania’s $470 million and 13,800 troops, and Slovenia’s $750 million and 5,973 troops. By not offering membership to Macedonia, though, NATO will have to do without Skopje’s $161 million and 10,890 troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbCollectively, such members spend less on their militaries in a year than the United States spends in Iraq in ten days. How adding such military pygmies to NATO is supposed to enhance the security of the United States is truly a mystery.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa conclusion de Carpenter est celle d’un homme au souffle coup\u00e9 devant l’insulte \u00e0 l’intelligence que constitue pour lui la politique otanienne et tout ce qu’elle nous dit de la position intellectuelle de l’Occident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIt is baffling why NATO (and especially the United States as the leader of the alliance) would want to take on such members. That is a policy that verges on masochism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbNATO is fast becoming a parody of itself. It is increasingly a combination political honor society and geopolitical babysitting club. The admission of such trivial military powers as the Baltic republics, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Albania confirms that the alliance has outlived any usefulness it once had. Someone should take the merciful step and put NATO out of its misery.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t Anatol Lieven, que nous aimons beaucoup, trouve les termes et les exclamations qu’il faut dans l’indignation que tout honn\u00eate homme doit pouvoir trouver lorsqu’il juge de notre politique, \u00e0 nous, grande civilisation occidentale. Il est peut-\u00eatre d\u00e9sormais moins urgent de d\u00e9noncer les ravages de l’id\u00e9ologie que les ravages de la sottise universelle que l’Occident s’offre \u00e0 elle-m\u00eame. A ce jeu, Lieven est excellent, qu’il parle de la farce G\u00e9orgie-Ukraine, des pr\u00e9tentions militaires de pays embourb\u00e9s en Irak d’une fa\u00e7on inimaginable, des rodomontades de puissances qui coulent dans une crise \u00e9conomique de dimensions cosmiques, et jusqu’\u00e0 la farce sanglante de l’Afghanistan. (\u00abAnd what a success the summit was! What a tribute to NATO’s commitment to the common effort in Afghanistan, and spirit of collective self-sacrifice! France came up with 700 new soldiers, which makes approximately one for every 400 square miles of Afghan territory or for every 40,000 Afghans. The richest group of countries on earth came up with 18 new helicopters for Afghanistan; a fraction of the numbers it takes to ferry millionaires to their European ski resorts on any given day.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa conclusion de Lieven est charg\u00e9e d’ironie m\u00e9prisante, de d\u00e9rision, de haussements d’\u00e9paule furieux, pour cet a\u00e9ropage des \u00e9lites occidentales et associ\u00e9es embourb\u00e9es dans l’ent\u00eatement de l’incons\u00e9quence et de l’irresponsabilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abLeaving aside domestic political calculations in the United States, what this whole process reflects is the profound infantilism of many of the Western attitudes concerned. In the United States, the infantile illusion of omnipotence, whereby it doesn’t matter how many commitments the United States has made elsewherein the last resort, the United States can always do what it likes; in much of Western Europe, the infantile syndrome of dependence on the United States, nurtured by a profound desire not to have to think and act in an adult fashion concerning the needs and costs of European defense; and in Eastern Europe, an infantile obsession with historical grudges against Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIf this process continues, then we will find ourselves in a situation where NATO has made an Article 5 commitment to fight if necessary for a Georgian Abkhazia and a Ukrainian Sevastopol. Mr de Hoop Scheffer has been urging NATO expansion to these countries, and has evenunconscionablysought to preempt democratic debate within the organization of which he is supposed to be the servant by declaring that the discussion is over and that Ukraine and Georgia will definitely be admitted soon whatever happens. Scheffer is Dutch. Is he suggesting that the Dutch armyto give it that namewould fight to defend Ukraine or Georgia? Having given the absolutely obvious answer to that question, does anything more really need to be said?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 8 avril 2008 \u00e0 04H10<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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