{"id":70592,"date":"2009-03-09T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/yes-he-can-peut-etre-apres-tout-le-cas-freeman-nous-eclairera\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:21:47","slug":"yes-he-can-peut-etre-apres-tout-le-cas-freeman-nous-eclairera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/09\/yes-he-can-peut-etre-apres-tout-le-cas-freeman-nous-eclairera\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYes, he can<\/em>\u201d \u2013 peut-\u00eatre, apr\u00e8s tout\u2026 Le cas Freeman nous \u00e9clairera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Raimondo, qui n’est pas ais\u00e9ment convaincu, reconna\u00eet qu’il se passe peut-\u00eatre quelque chose, qu’il s’est peut-\u00eatre tromp\u00e9 puisqu’il a souvent annonc\u00e9 qu’il ne se passerait rien, et qu’il en serait heureux, de s’\u00eatre tromp\u00e9: \u00abThe playing field isn’t level, but, then again, it never is. Nevertheless, the odds are no longer quite so stacked against us, and that’s a sign of progress, I’m glad to admit.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDe quoi parle-t-il, aujourd’hui<\/a>, sur Antiwar.com<\/em>? De la politique ext\u00e9rieure de Barack Obama. Justin Raimondo, l’un des leaders de droite du parti antiguerre, rel\u00e8ve les divers signes qui montrent qu’il se passe effectivement quelque chose, qui pourrait \u00eatre l’amorce d’un basculement de la politique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Il y a d’ailleurs autant de signes, toujours selon Justin, allant dans le sens contraire, bloquant \u00e9ventuellement ce renversement; mais quoi, les choses bougent<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tRaimondo place fort justement comme un acte important dans le sens qu’il dit, la nomination<\/a> de Chas Freeman au poste d’adjoint de l’amiral Blair, le Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Il rapporte la pr\u00e9cision du Washington Times<\/em> selon laquelle il a \u00e9t\u00e9 affirm\u00e9, de fa\u00e7on appuy\u00e9e dans le chef de la porte-parole de Blair, qu’Obama n’\u00e9tait pas au courant du choix de ce m\u00eame Blair, avant la nomination de Freeman. Ce genre d’intervention est bien ambigu\u00eb; cela peut aussi bien signifier qu’Obama s’en lave les mains, pour demander \u00e9ventuellement le d\u00e9part de Freeman si les choses se g\u00e2tent; ou bien, en sens contraire, qu’Obama n’a rien pr\u00e9m\u00e9dit\u00e9 mais que, maintenant, puisque nomination il y a, il ne peut qu’ent\u00e9riner et soutenir son DNI Tout cela, bien s\u00fbr, en pr\u00e9vision des effets de l’incroyable temp\u00eate que le Lobby<\/em> (pro-isra\u00e9lien) a soulev\u00e9 contre la nomination de Freeman. De toutes les fa\u00e7ons, la chose est bien un test, et elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 voulue comme cela; Freeman, qui est \u00e2g\u00e9, a h\u00e9sit\u00e9 un certain temps avant d’accepter le poste, et cela suppose de la part de Blair au moins, \u00e9ventuellement des militaires derri\u00e8re lui (l’U.S. Navy, qui ne go\u00fbte gu\u00e8re la politique belliciste?), peut-\u00eatre d’Obama en sous-main malgr\u00e9 tout, une r\u00e9elle volont\u00e9 de voir cet homme, avec tout ce qu’il signifie, \u00e0 ce poste essentiel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDans tous les cas, voici ce qu’en dit Justin, qui est un des plus virulents critiques de l’influence absolument rocambolesque et obsc\u00e8ne que le Lobby<\/em> exerce sur la politique US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe style of this administration is to speak out of both sides of its mouth while looking over its shoulder at the various constituencies it must appease. The \u00ab\u00a0realist\u00a0\u00bb wing of the Obama administration, centered in the intelligence community and the diplomatic corps, looks to someone like Charles \u00ab\u00a0Chas\u00a0\u00bb Freeman, whose appointment as head of the National Intelligence Council would place him in a key position. Freeman was picked by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, whose spokeswoman made sure to let the Washington Times know that the president had no prior knowledge of the appointment. Freeman’s sin, in the eyes of the Lobby, was to promote The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, the seminal book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt that diagnoses the deforming effects of Israel’s American amen corner on our policymaking process.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe president’s left-wing supporters want action on the Israeli-Palestinian front, and expectations are high: a new understanding of the special relationship is a prerequisite for success. Yet the administration is extraordinarily sensitive to criticism from the Israel lobby, which has gone on a jihad against Freeman, throwing everything in the book at him, and then some. The chosen theme of their hate campaign, in this case, is to portray Freeman as an agent of foreign powers Saudi Arabia and China, so far. This charge, coming from the Israel lobby, is a hoot and a half especially when one considers that the first voice to be raised against Freeman belonged to none other than Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC top lobbyist awaiting trial on charges of espionage on behalf of Israel…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbVery early on, a struggle for the heart and soul of the Obama administration is taking place within the national security bureaucracy, with the realists arrayed against the Lobby and the national security Democrats grouped around the Center for a New American Security, the Democratic version of the infamous Project for a New American Century. CNAS appointees are pouring into top Pentagon policy and State Department positions, while the core resistance to the War Party, as in the Bush years, remains in the intelligence sector, in this case Blair’s National Intelligence Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbChange? It’s still possible: the War Party, although in charge at State and the Pentagon, is hampered by widespread uneasiness among the president’s base at the escalating conflict in Afghanistan and the prospect of a wider conflict in Central Asia. On the other hand, Obama is unlikely to want to take on the Israel lobby so early in his administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Freeman appointment is one test of where we are going: if the Lobby succeeds in derailing it, that will tell us who’s still in the driver’s seat when it comes to steering our future course. The Lobby is fighting to assert its power of veto, which it exercised effortlessly during the Bush dark ages. Is this the bright dawn of a new day, or will the same old clouds darken our horizon for the next four years? Some indication of where we are headed is due shortly, but in the meantime, it’s important to know that your voice is important. We’re at a plastic juncture in the history of our foreign policy, one that could go either way. Do I have the audacity to hope? Well, yes, I do<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBref, encore un signe que des \u00e9v\u00e9nements importants, encore souterrains mais \u00e0 peine, se d\u00e9roulent. La derni\u00e8re initiative d’Obama d’envisager de parler avec des mod\u00e9r\u00e9s talibans apr\u00e8s avoir reconnu que les USA sont en train de perdre la guerre en Afghanistan (voir le Times<\/em> de Londres de ce jour<\/a>) en rajoute encore dans ce sens. Raimondo craint pourtant la similitude de cette d\u00e9marche avec ce qui s’est pass\u00e9 en Irak, pour le surge<\/em> (l’accord de l’arm\u00e9e US avec les sunnites), \u00e0 quoi Obama fait pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment allusion. C’est justement la chose int\u00e9ressante: Obama parle de faire en Afghanistan la m\u00eame chose qu’en Irak, apr\u00e8s avoir reconnu que les USA sont en train de perdre (en Afghanistan); cela revient \u00e0 reconna\u00eetre que les USA perdaient effectivement la guerre en Irak, lorsqu’ils se sont d\u00e9cid\u00e9s \u00e0 aller n\u00e9gocier, voir acheter l’alliance des sunnite. Pour les archives, mais aussi pour l’\u00e9tat d’esprit d’Obama, c’est une pr\u00e9cision qui n’est pas sans int\u00e9r\u00eat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 9 mars 2009 \u00e0 11H25<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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