30 juin 2010<\/a>. (Nous citons le d\u00e9but du texte, le reste \u00e9tant consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e9tat \u00e9videmment apocalyptique de la marche vers la victoire en Afghanistan de la civilisation occidentaliste, avec nos amis am\u00e9ricanistes.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIt is amazing how little commentary there has been on the key issue raised by the McChrystal Affair: Should U.S. war policy be made by Rolling Stone? The very fact that it took a magazine article for President Barack Obama to remove Gen. Stanley McChrystal provides the strongest possible reason for allowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan to negotiate a settlement with the Taliban.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne point must be understood above all: McChrystal was not fired because he disrespected civilian authority, despised his administration colleagues and was running a dysfunctional operation. He was ousted because he allowed the public to find outthe one unforgivable sin for a U.S. executive branch long accustomed to operating its wars with little public or congressional knowledge or accountability, behind a PR curtain maintaining the myth that U.S. foreign and military policy is conducted democratically.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIf the Rolling Stone piece had not appeared, McChrystal would still be running the war in Afghanistan, still ignoring e-mail messages from Richard Wounded Beast Holbrooke, still feeling betrayed by Karl Traitor Eikenberry, still blowing off Joe Bite Me Biden and James Clown Jones, and still disparaging Barack Disengaged Obama.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbGen. David Petraeus’ role in the affair is particularly significant. Petraeus is by his own testimony a close personal friend of his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, and he was primarily responsible for McChrystal having been appointed to head U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It is inconceivable that he did not know how McChrystal felt about his civilian team members, or was unaware of their inability to work together. If the McChrystal cohort talked this way in front of a reporter, can you imagine how good buds Dave and Stan talk about a Holbrooke, Biden or Obama over a cold one with no one else around?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPetraeus’ failure to act before the scandal occurred means he failed as CentCom commander. One of his major responsibilities was obviously to assemble and deploy a smoothly functioning team to conduct military and political warfare in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theaterone of the most sensitive arenas in which the U.S. has operated since the end of World War II.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPetraeus’ failure is matched, of course, by that of Obama and his top advisers. Neither Petraeus nor Obama should have needed a magazine profile in order to reorganize a team that was clearly broken.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAnd will this team be able to work together now? Does Petraeus, who has been chosen to take over military operations in Afghanistan, have any more respect than his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 for Holbrooke, whom he has referred to as my diplomatic wingman? Does he resent the Eikenberry cables any less, or admire Joe Biden or Barack Obama any more?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbPetraeus is, of course, far more politically astute than McChrystal, and is unlikely to allow us to peer again into the dysfunctional mess behind the curtain. Indeed, his many admirers in the media can be expected to convey the message that his new team is functioning smoothly. But it is unlikely that the team that will now run the AfPak war will function behind the scenes any more effectively than it did before, because the problem is not one of personalities but policy failure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe lesson of the McChrystal affair is stark: America is losing, badly<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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