25 mai 2009<\/a>, une courte r\u00e9flexion qui m\u00e9rite une mention. L’habitude, avec ce chroniqueur qui pratique bien l’analyse politique, est le maniement de la nuance, le refus des anath\u00e8mes, la mesure, les jugements balanc\u00e9s Cette fois, le propos est simple et il est cat\u00e9gorique; il embrasse bien, sans exc\u00e8s de langage, cet aspect catastrophique dont nous parlons; il constate, sans qu’il soit utile d’argumenter, l’\u00e9vidence de l’absurdit\u00e9 de cette politique et des souffrances qu’elle entra\u00eene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tClemons a choisi, pour illustrer son propos, un mort parmi d’autres, mais un destin particuli\u00e8rement tragique selon les circonstances familiales de la victime. Il s’agit du lieutenant Andrew Bacevich Jr., tu\u00e9 \u00e0 Bagdad le 13 mai 2007; il \u00e9tait le fils du professeur et historien Andrew J. Bacevich, qui s’est battu d\u00e8s l’origine contre la guerre en Irak qu’il jugeait ill\u00e9gale, cruelle et inutile; le professeur Bacevich n’a pas tent\u00e9 d’user de son influence pour \u00e9viter \u00e0 son fils d’aller se battre dans une guerre que lui-m\u00eame condamnait, il ne lui a pas trouv\u00e9 d’autres priorit\u00e9s (dixit<\/em> Cheney quand il choisit de faire en sorte d’\u00e9viter d’aller au Vietnam).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe texte de Clemons m\u00e9rite lecture et citation. Il \u00e9quilibre avec une grande sensibilit\u00e9 le respect qu’un citoyen doit montrer sans restriction pour le sacrifice des soldats morts pour son propre pays, et le jugement s\u00e9v\u00e8re pour ceux qui ont engag\u00e9 ces conflits absurdes o\u00f9 ces soldats furent tu\u00e9s. Il nous donne une appr\u00e9ciation nourrie par l’\u00e9motion mais nullement exempte d’enseignements politiques sur une \u00e9poque, et sur le syst\u00e8me qui en fut le principal moteur, qui ont perverti dans l’esprit de certains la notion de sacrifice en la mettant au service de causes et de politiques absurdes et catastrophiques. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abThe United States is engaged in too many wars at the same time and is convincing too many other nation states that it cannot achieve the ends it sets out for itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe military limits America has exposed in its Iraq and Afghanistan engagements; the moral mistakes the US military and Bush administration made in Bagram, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib; and the audacity of American structural corruption that resulted in the export of toxic financial products to the rest of the world have generated doubt in the minds of allies that America can realistically support them and have animated the ambitions of foes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNorth Korea is testing America just like Joe Biden said would happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne of the great thinkers about the implosion of American power in the world is Boston University defense thinker Andrew Bacevich whose book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism’ is a should read.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHis son, Andrew Bacevich Jr.<\/em> [] was killed in Iraq, one of our current wars that I believe has undermined America’s place in the world and its global leverage not increased it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut I want to remember Bacevich and the many who have sacrificed for the country. I have friends in the military deployed in the Middle East now and I wish they were back home. These soldiers do deserve our respect but like Bacevich Jr.’s father, I believe that our current conflicts are doing the nation great harm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMemorial Day does not mean embracing wars and conflicts that set back the interests of the nation in some shallow gesture of patriotism but Memorial Day should mean paying respect to those who have sacrificed greatly for the nation, even if that sacrifice should not have been demanded by our leaders.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 26 mai 2009 \u00e0 09H53<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Am\u00e9ricains avaient hier leur Memorial Day, le premier depuis le d\u00e9part de l’administration Bush au cours de laquelle furent lanc\u00e9es ces guerres dont les morts \u00e9taient salu\u00e9s hier. On peut objecter qu’il ne s’agissait de saluer que des morts am\u00e9ricains alors que ces guerres ont caus\u00e9 tant de morts non-am\u00e9ricains, mais le Memorial Day… <\/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":[8352,6179,5575,857,6265],"class_list":["post-70784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-becevich","tag-clemons","tag-day","tag-irak","tag-memorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70784","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=70784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}