Ainsi, \u00e0 un moment, Cyrano s’exclame-t-il : \u00abQue dites-vous? C’est inutile? Je le sais! Mais on ne se bat pas dans l’espoir du succ\u00e8s! Non! Non, c’est bien plus beau lorsque c’est inutile!<\/em>\u00bb Voici donc l’esprit bien fran\u00e7ais, l’esprit du panache, qui envahit l’\u00e9tat des \u00e2mes d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9es de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, lorsque l’historien Gary Wills \u00e9crit, en conclusion de son texte intitul\u00e9 Entangled Giant<\/em> (traduisons par Gulliver encha\u00een\u00e9, l’id\u00e9e est bien l\u00e0), du 8 octobre 2009<\/a>, de la New York Review of Books<\/em>..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abNonetheless, some of us entertain a fondness for the quaint old Constitution. It may be too late to return to its ideals, but the effort should be made. As Cyrano said, One doesn’t fight in the hope of winning (Mais on ne se bat pas dans l’espoir du succ\u00e8s).<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCertes, l’esprit de panache (se battre pour autre chose que pour gagner) n’est pas pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment la marque de fabrique de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. Mais l’am\u00e9ricanisme, aujourd’hui, semble bien d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9. L’article d’o\u00f9 la citation est extraite, qui d\u00e9crit l’emprisonnement de la puissance US par le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, dans ce cas le complexe militaro-industriel ou National Security State<\/em>, a d\u00e9j\u00e0 beaucoup marqu\u00e9 (il vient d’\u00eatre mis en ligne) et fait l’objet de commentaires.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Le s\u00e9nateur Gary Hart, sur son site Matters of Principles<\/em>, \u00e9crivait le 24 septembre 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abGary Wills bolsters his provocative argument by listing all of the George W. Bush security measures quietly adopted and approved by the new Obama administration. His argument is not that President Obama was a closet neo-conservative who managed to fool the voters. Rather, he says, the national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis helps explain the demented insistence on the part of the Bush administration to create, or perhaps merely ratify, the unitary executive, a notion based on the premise that all executive power resides in the president and Congress has no authority to question his actions as they relate to national security. In this context national security is so broadly defined as to include virtually everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAll the Bush advisors were trying to do was formalize a six decade trend, the concentration of power in the commander-in-chief.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAll this might make some plausible sense, but only if two things were true: one, that we are now locked into a kind of semi-permanent era of conflict and danger; and two that James Madison and his colleagues had not gone to considerable pains to create a genius system of checked-and-balanced government where power is concentrated in no single branch. We should be concerned less about whether Bush officials are now happy with the concentrated power they have passed on to their successors and more about what James Madison would think about all this.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Le 27 septembre 2009<\/a>, dans sa rubrique This Week<\/em> sur Huffington Post<\/em>, James Warren, ancien directeur du Chicago Tribune<\/em>, commente \u00e0 son tour l’article de Wills<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abMost of his case involves national defense and he concedes, It should come as no surprise that turning around the huge secret empire built by the National Security State is a hard, perhaps impossible, task. In sum, he argues that Obama will become a prisoner of the national security prison we’ve built over decades; an empire of military bases and imperial dealings largely unknown to the average citizen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe feels he must avoid embarrassing the hordes of agents, military personnel, and diplomatic instruments whose loyalty he must command, writes Wills. Keeping up morale in this vast, shady enterprise is something impressed on him by all manner of commitments. He becomes the prisoner of his own power. As President Truman could not not use the bomb, a modern president cannot not use the huge powers at his disposal. It has all been given him as the legacy of Bomb Power, the thing that makes him not only Commander in Chief but Leader of the Free World. He is a self-entangling giant.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tOn a compris de quoi est faite la substance de l’article de Wills. La chose n’est pas nouvelle mais elle devient d\u00e9sormais une inqui\u00e9tude majeure, une angoisse irr\u00e9pressible dans l’establishment<\/em> lui-m\u00eame, devant le constat de l’impossibilit\u00e9 de la lib\u00e9ration de Gulliver de ses cha\u00eenes. Elle rejoint sans aucun doute notre appr\u00e9ciation que les puissances sont aujourd’hui prisonni\u00e8res d’un syst\u00e8me aveugle, qui fonctionne de lui-m\u00eame, sans n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d’un esprit directeur, d’un complot central, d’une conception mal\u00e9fique, etc., dont profitent les uns et les autres (complots annexes et bonnes affaires de-ci de-l\u00e0), dont souffrent les autres et les uns (guerres d’agression, pratiques oppressives, victimes du capitalisme), etc. C’est essentiellement le cas du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, et nous avec lui, autour de lui, tous prisonniers de ce syst\u00e8me. Les consid\u00e9rations morales, id\u00e9ologiques, les jugements des experts sur la politique, les montages des analystes perspicaces, tout cela n’est que path\u00e9tique accessoire \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la puissance formidable du syst\u00e8me aveugle. Plus la connaissance avance, pour ceux qui veulent bien encore de la connaissance, plus la chose ne cesse de se confirmer, m\u00eame dans l’histoire elle-m\u00eame, comme on le voit ce m\u00eame 28 septembre 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 28 septembre 2009 \u00e0 09H57<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ainsi, \u00e0 un moment, Cyrano s’exclame-t-il : \u00abQue dites-vous? C’est inutile? Je le sais! Mais on ne se bat pas dans l’espoir du succ\u00e8s! Non! 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