La question de l’h\u00e9ritage de l’administration GW Bush p\u00e8se de plus en plus lourdement sur l’administration Obama, y compris dans des d\u00e9cisions qui peuvent appara\u00eetre \u00e0 premi\u00e8re vue prises pour modifier les situations cr\u00e9\u00e9es pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment. Apr\u00e8s les remous suscit\u00e9s par le limogeage<\/a> du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral McKiernan, chef des forces US et de l’OTAN en Afghanistan, il y a ceux qui surgissent dans le sillage de la nomination de son successeur, la g\u00e9n\u00e9ral McChrystal. Officiellement, cette nomination correspond \u00e0 la nouvelle orientation qu’Obama et Gates veulent donner aux op\u00e9rations en Afghanistan. Mais il appara\u00eet de plus en plus clairement que la personnalit\u00e9, l’exp\u00e9rience et la carri\u00e8re de McChrystal devraient conduire plut\u00f4t \u00e0 une aggravation des conditions de cette guerre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPlusieurs articles d’auteurs ou de sources confirm\u00e9s (rien \u00e0 voir avec la presse –Pravda<\/em> et de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, qui se contente des assurances des communiqu\u00e9s du Pentagone) d\u00e9veloppent des appr\u00e9ciations tr\u00e8s voisines sur McChrystal. Sa nomination appara\u00eet d\u00e9sormais de plus en plus \u00e9trange, par rapport \u00e0 l’une des intentions de l’administration Obama qui devrait \u00eatre, on l’esp\u00e8re, de r\u00e9duire les pertes civiles et les heurts \u00e0 cause d’actions ill\u00e9gales US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Seymour Hersh<\/a> (du New Yorker<\/em>) conna\u00eet bien McChrystal. Il relie l’activit\u00e9 et la carri\u00e8re de cet officier aux unit\u00e9s diverses des forces sp\u00e9ciales US form\u00e9es sous l’administration Bush, sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es dans la liquidation de terroristes, ou pr\u00e9sum\u00e9es-suppos\u00e9es terroristes, tout cela sous la supervision empress\u00e9e du vice-pr\u00e9sident Dick Cheney. Le site iranien PressTV.Ir<\/em> rapporte, le 15 mai 2007<\/a>, ces d\u00e9clarations de Hersh, faites dans une interview \u00e0 Gulf.News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abSeymour Hersh says that Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing and the head of the wing has just been named as the new commander in Afghanistan. In an interview with GulfNews on May 12, 2009 Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, said that there is a special unit called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that does high-value targeting of men that are known to be involved in anti-American activities, or are believed to be planning such activities.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAccording to Hersh, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) was headed by former US vice president Dick Cheney and the former head of JSOC, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal who has just been named the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Sur Atimes.com<\/em>, le 14 mai 2009<\/a>, Gareth Porter trace le portrait d’un McChrystal proche de Rumsfeld, qui appliqua les tactiques exp\u00e9ditives de l’ancien secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense de liquidations et d’attaques clandestines, d’actions sp\u00e9ciales ill\u00e9gales, etc., sans aucune restriction g\u00e9ographique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe choice of Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal to become the new United States commander in Afghanistan has been hailed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and national news media as ushering in a new unconventional approach to counter-insurgency. But McChrystal’s background sends a very different message from the one claimed by Gates and the news media. His long specialization in counter-terrorism operations suggests an officer who is likely to have more interest in targeted killings than in the kind of politically sensitive counter-insurgency program that the Barack Obama administration has said it intends to carry out.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt was under McChrystal’s command, in fact, that JSOC shifted away from the very mission of training indigenous military units in counter-insurgency operations that had been a core mission of special operations forces. McChrystal spent an unusual five years as commander of JSOC, because he had become a close friend of then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld came to view JSOC as his counter to the covert operations capabilities of the Central Intelligence Agency, which he hated and distrusted, and Rumsfeld used JSOC to capture or kill high-value enemy leaders, including Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda’s top leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn 2005, JSOC’s parent command, the Special Operations Command (SOCOM), was directed by Rumsfeld to plan, synchronize and, as directed, conduct global operations against terrorist networks in coordination with other combatant commanders. That directive has generally been regarded as granting SOCOM the authority to carry out actions unilaterally anywhere on the globe.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n