magic pudding<\/em> sans fin, une pompe \u00e0 $milliards vers l’industrie d’armement et le complexe militaro-industriel. Mais lisez surtout la conclusion de Monbiot, ces trois derniers paragraphes et le dernier particuli\u00e8rement, comme d\u00e9finition impeccable de la politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale am\u00e9ricaniste <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abUS politics, because of the failure by both Republicans and Democrats to deal with the problems of campaign finance, is rotten from head to toe. But under Bush, the corruption has acquired Nigerian qualities. Federal government is a vast corporate welfare programme, rewarding the industries that give millions of dollars in political donations with contracts worth billions. Missile defence is the biggest pork barrel of all, the magic pudding that won’t run out, however much you eat. The funds channelled to defence, aerospace and other manufacturing and service companies will never run dry because the system will never work.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTo keep the pudding flowing, the administration must exaggerate the threats from nations that have no means of nuking it and ignore the likely responses of those that do. Russia is not without its own corrupting influences. You could see the grim delight of the Russian generals and defence officials last week, who have found in this new deployment an excuse to enhance their power and demand bigger budgets. Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America’s groundbait<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIf we seek to understand American foreign policy in terms of a rational engagement with international problems, or even as an effective means of projecting power, we are looking in the wrong place. The government’s interests have always been provincial. It seeks to appease lobbyists, shift public opinion at crucial stages of the political cycle, accommodate crazy Christian fantasies and pander to television companies run by eccentric billionaires. The US does not really have a foreign policy. It has a series of domestic policies which it projects beyond its borders. That they threaten the world with 57 varieties of destruction is of no concern to the current administration. The only question of interest is who gets paid and what the political kickbacks will be.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLa description est parfaite. C’est absolument vrai, la politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale des USA est devenue une politique provinciale, o\u00f9 les d\u00e9cisions si importantes dans leurs effets ont comme sources les petites concurrences au niveau local, entre divers groupes d’int\u00e9r\u00eat, pour savoir qui aura la meilleure part du magic pudding<\/em> sans fin. Nulle autre explication ne sied mieux \u00e0 l’\u00e9clairage le plus cru de notre crise que cet abaissement vertigineux de l’activit\u00e9 humaine la plus essentielle, la politique. La m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 qui caract\u00e9rise le fonctionnement des structures tremblotantes de notre civilisation s’est install\u00e9e dans les psychologies, formate l’activit\u00e9 de nos esprits, conditionne la s\u00e9lection de nos \u00e9lites, machine la pr\u00e9sentation n\u00e9cessairement mensong\u00e8re des \u00e9v\u00e9nements du monde, entra\u00eene le d\u00e9sordre syst\u00e9matique de la d\u00e9structuration qu’elle suscite par sa nature m\u00eame. L’explication centrale et finale de la crise de notre civilisation se trouve exactement \u00e0 ce niveau, dans un contraste extraordinaire entre la petitesse banale de la cause de cette m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 et l’\u00e9normit\u00e9 apocalyptique des effets. La trag\u00e9die du monde a des aspects absolument d\u00e9risoires. Si le Diable en rit encore, on se demande si c’est de cette d\u00e9rision ou de la pompe imperturbable et interminable de nos discours. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 21 ao\u00fbt 2008 \u00e0 06H22<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On n’en finit pas de mesurer la d\u00e9cadence extraordinaire de la chose dont l’Histoire nous avait appris la pr\u00e9pond\u00e9rance dans le destin collectif des nations. Cette phrase pompeuse n’a d’autre but que de d\u00e9crire la politique, aux guillemets d\u00e9sormais oblig\u00e9s quand \u00e7a se trouve, et l’\u00e9tat o\u00f9 elle se trouve aujourd’hui. La signature \u00e0 Varsovie… <\/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":[3453,4314,3821,4316,2827,3306],"class_list":["post-70127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-anti-missiles","tag-bmde","tag-mediocrite","tag-monbiot","tag-pologne","tag-rice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127","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=70127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}