Le commentateur de droite Arnaud de Borchgrave examine la d\u00e9cision sur l’Afghanistan de Barack Obama du point de vue de la politique int\u00e9rieure US. Pour lui, cette d\u00e9cision n’a gu\u00e8re de sens politique et Obama s’est pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9 dans un pi\u00e8ge qui pourrait co\u00fbter \u00e0 son parti la majorit\u00e9 au Congr\u00e8s en 2010 et lui co\u00fbter la pr\u00e9sidence en 2012 au profit du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Petraeus. Pour Borchgrave, les USA n’ont plus les moyens de mener cette guerre et le public va rapidement s’y opposer. Il juge que l’hypoth\u00e8se Petraeus est plus que jamais d’actualit\u00e9 (voir notre F&C<\/em> du 25 septembre 2009<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tBorchgrave, dans sa chronique pour UPI (via SpaceWar.com<\/em>), le 14 d\u00e9cembre 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhy Obama still felt compelled to add 30,000 troops to the 68,000 boots already on the ground, at $1 million per soldier per year, is not much of a mystery. The fear of being branded an appeaser and losing the House of Representatives next year and the White House in 2012 to Republicans is clearly paramount. The president is out on a limb but is staying close to the trunk, which leaves little room for Republican and lukewarm left-wing supporters who would saw it off. He can see these two adversaries pre-empting his own post-imperial agenda with a new slogan e.g., Americans come home time to rebuild America (before China eats our lunch).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbU.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus is already being auscultated by GOP scouts parsing the potential field. They recall how Gen. Dwight Eisenhower clinched his presidential campaign with I shall go to Korea to end an unpopular war. Once in the White House, he gave the U.S. economy a formidable booster shot — and ordered up the interstate highway system. It became the largest public works project in history and the largest highway system (46,876 miles) in the world.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb[A]lmost 60 percent of Americans asked say the country is on the wrong track. They are confused. The administration says the economic recovery is well under way. Yet almost 25 million Americans are without jobs (including those who no longer qualify for unemployment compensation as well as those who gave up looking). Seven million Americans are behind on their mortgages and risk foreclosure. Economist Peter Morici reports Wall Street banks are divvying up $140 billion in year-end bonuses on the back of $280 billion in new profits. Military men and women are pulling up to five wartime tours in Iraq and\/or Afghanistan. U.S. Rep. David R. Obey D-Wis., chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, says we cannot continue without a war surtax. This could cost the Democrats both houses and change history.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n On conna\u00eet Borchgrave et ses inqui\u00e9tudes<\/a> pour la situation US, notamment en 2012, ann\u00e9e de la prochaine \u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle et ann\u00e9e difficile selon d’autres pr\u00e9visions moins strictement politiques et prestement utilis\u00e9es par les sp\u00e9cialistes des block buster<\/em> hollywoodiens (Roland Emmerich et son film<\/a> hyper-hollywoodien 2012<\/em>). Le calendrier des Mayas et la p\u00e9riode int\u00e9rimaire suivant l’\u00e9lection de novembre 2012, qui constitue de plus en plus un terme \u00e0 la fois myst\u00e9rieux et mena\u00e7ant, pr\u00e9sentent une similitude de date qui ne manquera pas d’\u00eatre relev\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nNotre commentaire<\/h4>\n