The hallmark of the Iraq debate is its unreality.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tBaker termine par un constat d\u00e9sol\u00e9 en trois points:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbBut the hallmark of this entire debate is its continuing unreality.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbRepublicans seem to suggest that the war is going so well that the US should simply stay indefinitely. But senior strategists close to Mr McCain acknowledge what many in the Pentagon are saying with increasing alarm that the strains the war is placing on US military capabilities are so great that some significant reduction in the American role is essential some time soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAt the same time, Democratic foreign policy advisers also admit that the chances that their candidate will be able to meet campaign promises and pull US forces out quickly next year whatever the situation on the ground in Iraq is equally absurd.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe reality is that, once the posturing is done and the election is over, whoever wins is going to have to sit down with General Petraeus or his successor without the television cameras – and figure out a pragmatic resolution to this messy and prolonged American engagement.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl n’emp\u00eache, absurde pour absurde, poor old fellow<\/em> Baker n’\u00e9chappe pas \u00e0 la mal\u00e9diction irakienne. Les deux absurdit\u00e9s qu’il d\u00e9crit (la r\u00e9publicaine, via McCain, la d\u00e9mocrate, via Hillary et Obama) sont \u00e9galement les deux seules options envisageables dans l’incroyable pi\u00e8ge de d\u00e9sordre incontr\u00f4lable o\u00f9 sont pris les Am\u00e9ricains: rester en Irak ou partir d’Irak. Baker sugg\u00e8re qu’il faut rester encore un peu et se r\u00e9unir pour envisager de commencer \u00e0 partir. Comment faire si la situation comme elle est interdit effectivement de partir, sinon faire \u00e9voluer la guerre dans un sens tr\u00e8s favorable aux USA pour qu’on puisse partir sans encombre, mais c’est alors \u00e9pouser la th\u00e8se des r\u00e9publicains simplement un peu retard\u00e9e chronologiquement que tout va tr\u00e8s, tr\u00e8s bien, et alors, dans ce cas, pourquoi ne pas rester?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa r\u00e9alit\u00e9, voire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9, est que l’intervention nihiliste des USA en Irak, attaquer pour attaquer, taper pour taper, conqu\u00e9rir pour conqu\u00e9rir, a cr\u00e9\u00e9 sur le terrain m\u00eame une situation \u00e9galement nihiliste qui interdit toute \u00e9volution raisonnable et contr\u00f4lable. Le pi\u00e8ge est parfait. Les USA y sont parfaitement verrouill\u00e9s. Le nihilisme r\u00e8gne. Alors, autant que les candidats s’\u00e9battent dans leur virtualisme, cela leur permet d’esp\u00e9rer \u00eatre \u00e9lus. Ce sera donc une \u00e9lection nihiliste, et la prochaine administration encha\u00eenant sur l’actuelle sans en changer le sens, c’est-\u00e0-dire l’absence de sens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 9 avril 2008 \u00e0 06H46<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Petraeus t\u00e9moigne devant le Congr\u00e8s, sorte de rituel d\u00e9sormais (troisi\u00e8me s\u00e9rie d’audition), sorte de discours sur l’\u00e9tat de l’Irak. Cette fois, le spectaculaire de la nouveaut\u00e9 de la proc\u00e9dure l’a c\u00e9d\u00e9 devant la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 de la chose: m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 de sa strat\u00e9gie, m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 des interventions des s\u00e9nateurs pompeux et satisfaits d’eux-m\u00eames… <\/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":[4094,3278,857,4063,5944,6208,6264],"class_list":["post-69817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-baker","tag-hillary","tag-irak","tag-mccain","tag-nihilisme","tag-obama","tag-petraeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69817","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=69817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}