Vendredi 8 octobre, Antiwar.com<\/em> signalait ce texte du 28 septembre 2010<\/a> de Foreign Policy<\/em>, de Thomas Ruttig, de Afghanistan Analysts Networks (AAN), qui l’avait lui-m\u00eame mis en ligne sur son site le 27 septembre 2010<\/a>. Le texte est intitul\u00e9 l’Empire est en train de devenir fou et il d\u00e9crit l’incoh\u00e9rence de la situation en Afghanistan, autant, et encore plus, selon notre point de vue, qu’aux Etats-Unis m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe fait m\u00eame que ce texte ait \u00e9t\u00e9 repris sur Foreign Policy<\/em> est en soi une indication int\u00e9ressante. La qualit\u00e9 du texte n’est certainement pas ici la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence qui importe, outre le fait que cette qualit\u00e9 est indiscutable, mais bien la peinture qu’il fait du monde officiel US des experts face au conflit. Tout est dit lorsque l’auteur, pour d\u00e9buter, \u00e9voque le fameux Docteur Folamour du film de Kubrick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe current U.S. clue- and helplessness in Afghanistan, with its strategy that no one knows whether it will work and with no Plan B, is definitely crying out for some out of the box thinking. But the ideas which have started to appear on various websites reminds one of the mad Dr. Strangelove, who learned how to stop worrying and love the bomb in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 movie. Most frightening is that some of these ideas and plans do not spring from the minds of fringe commentators but from the heart of the U.S. establishment. But for remote-view experts and newcomers in the field alike the advice would be: some closer-up knowledge about the country would help.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe most prominent plan of this kind is without doubt the de facto partition of Afghanistan. It comes from George W. Bush’s former deputy national security adviser Robert D. Blackwill. His brainchild adds up to a hand-over of Afghanistan’s northern and western regions to a federation of non-Pashtun warlord-led militias (something like a neo-Northern Alliance), propped up by 40,000 to 50,000 [US] troops. The predominantly Pashtun rest, i.e. the South and the East, would not be left alone but turned into a virtual free-fire zone:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb[T]he sky over Pashtun Afghanistan would be dark with manned and unmanned coalition aircraft – targeting not only terrorists but, as necessary, the new Taliban government in all its dimensions. Taliban civil officials like governors, mayors, judges and tax collectors would wake up every morning not knowing if they would survive the day in their offices, while involved in daily activities or at home at night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAnd if this drone strategy doesn’t work (as it apparently doesn’t in Pakistan), we still have Associate Professor Cora Sol Goldstein from California State University, another advocate of partition. She has already gone a step further, regretting that the national and international political context makes it impossible for the U.S. to fight a total war [sic!] in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that the use of nuclear weapons in the AfPak region is not yet justified.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbNot yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbDoes she seriously suggest nuking Kandahar? Or Quetta or Karachi?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb(Read her full paper<\/em> [] here but have some stiff drink at hand. To Nuclear Cora, we would like to recommend reading Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain or the opening chapter of Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows so that, in the meanwhile, she understands what she is talking about so that she stops confusing D-Day in World War II with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t(Les deux travaux mentionn\u00e9s dans cette citation sont accessibles aux liens r\u00e9f\u00e9renc\u00e9s sur les deux noms des auteurs : Blackwill<\/a> et Goldstein<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Docteur Folamour en Afghanistan Vendredi 8 octobre, Antiwar.com signalait ce texte du 28 septembre 2010 de Foreign Policy, de Thomas Ruttig, de Afghanistan Analysts Networks (AAN), qui l’avait lui-m\u00eame mis en ligne sur son site le 27 septembre 2010. 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