{"id":72687,"date":"2011-01-24T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/moby-dick-fait-peur-a-tout-le-monde\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T04:48:12","slug":"moby-dick-fait-peur-a-tout-le-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/moby-dick-fait-peur-a-tout-le-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby Dick<\/em> fait peur \u00e0 tout le monde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moby Dick<\/em> fait peur \u00e0 tout le monde<\/h4>\n

Joe Klein, l’auteur d’abord anonyme de Coulours<\/em> (1995), qui retra\u00e7ait la campagne \u00e9lectorale de Bill Clinton en 1992, avec quelques frasques de Bill, consacre le 20 janvier 2011<\/a> un article \u00e0 la carri\u00e8re d’Hillary Clinton. Le portrait que Klein trace d’abord d’Hillary-la-diplomate est presque \u00e9curant de brosse \u00e0 reluire, dans tous les cas \u00e9clairant \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard Ainsi vont les murs du Syst\u00e8me et de ceux qui le servent. Pour autant, les trois derniers paragraphes nous restituent le message (bien dans la mani\u00e8re de la Pravda<\/em>, \u00e7a, de placer le message en bout de texte, apr\u00e8s avoir fait ses d\u00e9votions).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEn un mot : Hilary ne doit pas accepter le poste de secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense qu’on lui propose. Ce qui veut dire d’abord qu’elle reste parmi les successeurs favoris de Robert Gates, toujours annonc\u00e9 comme partant. Mais le plus important est l’avant-dernier paragraphe, l’une des deux raisons qu’avance Klein pour qu’Hillary refuse ce poste, celle qu’il consid\u00e8re implicitement comme la moins importante, et qui est en fait, naturellement, la plus importante. Pour Klein, le poste de secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense est un suicide politique tant il promet au successeur de Gates un combat perdu d’avance contre le monstre, Moby Dick<\/em>, en pleine crise apocalyptique terminale. Il vaut mieux y envoyer un second couteau (John Hamre, Leon Panetta, pas un mot de Powell<\/a>, ce qui pourrait dire qu’il a d\u00e9clin\u00e9 l’offre), qui se perdra dans les labyrinthes de cette bataille perdue d’avance. Ainsi la pr\u00e9cieuse Hillary nous sera-t-elle conserv\u00e9e dans sa vertu originelle (c’est le sens de la deuxi\u00e8me raison avanc\u00e9e par Klein, \u00e9galement \u00e9clairante de brosse \u00e0 reluire).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThere is talk now that Clinton’s next step will be to slide over to the Pentagon and replace Robert Gates, who is expected to resign as Secretary of Defense later this year. It would, in some ways, be a natural progression for her. It would be another first the first woman SecDef. It would be an extremely valuable credential if she chooses to run for President in 2016. She certainly has the respect of the military and knowledge of the issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI think it would be a bad move, though, for two reasons. The first is that the Secretary of Defense is going to have a lousy, nuts-and-bolts job over the next few years, very much caught up in budget cuts and fighting the military-industrial-congressional complex. There are other candidates better suited to do this. John Hamre, a former deputy secretary, knows the Pentagon’s innards as well as anyone. CIA Director Leon Panetta may be best suited of all, with his real-time knowledge of our national-security problems and his history as a fervent budget cutter in Congress and as Bill Clinton’s budget director.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut there is a more important reason Clinton should stay at State. Diplomacy saves lives, Bill Clinton said in his eulogy. In the end, what matters [about Holbrooke] is that there are a lot of people walking around on the face of the earth because of his diplomatic triumphs. Hillary Clinton’s stature lends gravitas to the work of diplomacy, an art that was denigrated during Bush the Younger’s first term and remains sorely undervalued now. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wind down, as relationships from China to Pakistan to Iran fester, this is the moment for diplomacy to be restored to center stage, as senior partner to our military might. That was Holbrooke’s obsession. It should be her legacy.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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