{"id":69929,"date":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/obama-veut-relooker-les-special-relationships\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"obama-veut-relooker-les-special-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/28\/obama-veut-relooker-les-special-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama veut \u201crelooker\u201d les special relationships<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama a beaucoup de projets et \u00e9volue clairement d\u00e9sormais comme le quasi-candidat officiel du parti d\u00e9mocrate, avec un programme, des consultations, etc. Le Guardian<\/em> du 27 mai<\/a> r\u00e9v\u00e8le une de ses r\u00e9centes interventions, avec des interlocuteurs US au Royaume-Uni.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tObama s’adressait par t\u00e9l\u00e9phone \u00e0 une r\u00e9union de pr\u00e8s de 200 Am\u00e9ricains expatri\u00e9s vivant \u00e0 Londres, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des personnalit\u00e9s \u00e0 la fois riches et c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, de milieux divers o\u00f9 les activit\u00e9s de communication et de spectacle sont majoritaires. La r\u00e9union (qui avait pour but de r\u00e9unir des dons pour Obama, $400.000 r\u00e9unis) se passait \u00e0 Notting Hill, chez Elizabeth Murdoch (fille de Rupert, sans qu’on sache si cette parent\u00e9 a, dans ce cas, une signification politique, sachant par ailleurs que Rupert Murdoch soutient les n\u00e9o-conservateurs). Parmi les personnes pr\u00e9sentes, il y avait Kay Saatchi, collectionneuse d’art, Josh Berger, directeur de Warner Brothers UK, David Schwimmer, vedette de la Sitcom Friends<\/em>. L’actrice Gwyneth Paltrow, invit\u00e9e, s’est excus\u00e9e de son absence en donnant un message o\u00f9 elle explique son soutien \u00e0 Obama, qui r\u00e9sume bien le soutien des milieux lib\u00e9raux et fortun\u00e9s, m\u00ealant les causes accessoires et les causes plus substantielles: \u00ab[She is] supporting Obama<\/em> [because] he had a multiracial background, a name like Barack Obama, and had lived outside the US. He therefore had experience of other cultures and was aware that the US could not operate as a lone global policeman, Paltrow said, according to guests at the event. Obama drew on the same theme in his remarks, saying: I was brought up by an expatriate<\/em> [his mother and him lived in Indonesia when he was a boy] and I know what it’s like to look at the world differently.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’essentiel de l’intervention a port\u00e9 sur les relations USA-UK et sur la volont\u00e9 d’Obama de modifier substantiellement ces relations, dans le sens d’un r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage en faveur des Britanniques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abWe have a chance to recalibrate the relationship and for the United Kingdom to work with America as a full Partner<\/em> [Obama said] [] A foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign said the remarks on the US-UK relationship reflected the senator’s general foreign policy approach. It’s no longer going to be that we are in the lead and everyone follows us. Full partners not only listen to each other, they also occasionally follow each other, the adviser said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe general opinion among the Obama foreign policy team is that Tony Blair got very little in return for his support of the Iraq invasion, in terms of promoting his agenda for multilateral action on global issues and for a Washington-led push towards forging a settlement to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Prime minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy team agrees with that assessment, arguing Blair put too much emphasis on Britain being a bridge between the US and Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe trouble with being a bridge is that people walk over you, one senior British official said recently. Brown has previously had close relations with the Clinton camp, but his first meeting with Obama, in Washington last month, was said by both sides to have gone very well.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl y a donc beaucoup de belles intentions chez Obama, et, s’il ont y ajoute la sortie de Brzezinski<\/a> contre l’AIPAC, si cette critique refl\u00e8te la pens\u00e9e d’Obama, des intentions qui esquissent une certaine volont\u00e9 de changement dans la politique ext\u00e9rieure US. Mais les mots esquisser et volont\u00e9 de changement signifient bien qu’on en est encore au stade des intentions, et rien ne prouve que ces intentions ne dispara\u00eetront pas avec l’\u00e9lection.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl suffit pour l’instant de constater qu’Obama est en train de mettre en place une sorte de canevas encore disparate, mais qui doit rapidement donner quelque substance \u00e0 son slogan de changement, dans le domaine de la politique ext\u00e9rieure. Ce n’est pas encore un programme, c’est tout juste un climat. Nous ne sommes qu’au d\u00e9but de cette \u00e9volution possible et il reste beaucoup de chemin \u00e0 parcourir, pendant la campagne, avec beaucoup de vicissitudes probables tant le domaine est p\u00e9rilleux. Tout est \u00e0 faire. Reste \u00e0 constater qu’Obama choisit, ou bien est oblig\u00e9 de choisir en fonction de l’axe de sa campagne pendant les primaires et de la sorte de soutien qu’il a re\u00e7u chez les \u00e9lecteurs, une orientation qui pr\u00e9tend au changement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQuant \u00e0 ses remarques sur les relations USA-UK, en soi elles ne mangent pas de pain. Mais il est certain qu’elles rencontrent d’autre part une exigence tr\u00e8s forte de la part des Britanniques, qui sont harass\u00e9s par six ann\u00e9es d’alignement aveugle et servile sur la sottise \u00e9galement aveugle de l’\u00e9quipe Bush. Si Obama est \u00e9lu, les Britanniques ne manqueront pas de lui rappeler de telles d\u00e9clarations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 28 mai 2008 \u00e0 12H33<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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