The National Conversation<\/em>. Elle porte sur un calcul r\u00e9cent effectu\u00e9, sur le co\u00fbt de la climatisation des G.I.’s dans leurs tentes, en Afghanistan, pendant les fortes chaleurs Au reste, climatisation inefficace, puisque effectu\u00e9e effectivement dans des tentes peu habitu\u00e9es \u00e0 l’exercice, servies chacune par la machine ad\u00e9quate, o\u00f9 l’on parvient \u00e0 peine \u00e0 faire descendre la temp\u00e9rature en dessous de 30\u00b0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tMais climatisation d\u00e9cid\u00e9e, programm\u00e9e, planifi\u00e9e comme une offensive ! Bref, la chose co\u00fbte, chaque ann\u00e9e, $20 milliards, rien que cela, pour climatiser les G.I.’s en op\u00e9ration en Afghanistan. Cette somme prodigieuse, pour une op\u00e9ration inutile, inefficace, destructrice, etc., demande un nombre important d’op\u00e9rations, de gaspillages, de redondances, pour \u00eatre r\u00e9alis\u00e9e, en plus d’ailleurs de causer des pertes non n\u00e9gligeables. Philps nous donne quelques d\u00e9tails de cette situation si caract\u00e9ristique de l’immense usine \u00e0 gaz qu’est le Pentagone, et si bien illustrative de l’American Way of War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abOne such number is the cost of the US military providing air conditioning for its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A minor expenditure, you would expect, but it comes out at $20 billion (Dh73.5 billion) a year. This staggering sum is more than the total budget of Nasa, the US space agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis figure has been worked out by Brigadier General Steve Anderson, who until his retirement was responsible for logistics in these war zones. By the time fuel reaches the US bases dotted around Afghanistan, it costs $8 to $12 a litre, 10 times the pump price in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLooking at the terrain, it is not so surprising: fuel has to be trucked from the Pakistani port of Karachi for 1,300 kilometres to Kandahar or Bagram, a journey of 18 days, then transferred to smaller tankers to drive over improved goat paths to the bases.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe costs, which the Pentagon disputes, include paying and protecting the contractors who guard the convoys against ambush, and the medical teams to treat their wounds and to evacuate the dead. In terms of human cost, 1,000 Americans and 150 Britons have died delivering fuel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt is hot in Afghanistan, and the soldiers live in uninsulated tents where the air conditioning struggles to keep the temperature below 30\u00b0C<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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