neocons<\/em>… <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWhy is the United States so reluctant to negotiate with other countries and so prone to leap immediately to the option of using force or chicanery in lieu of a more deliberative foreign policy? It might partly be because we Americans are not very good at the subtlety and give-and-take that diplomacy requires, but it could also be because our framework for operating, which shapes what we do and how we do it, is hopelessly skewed. One might even argue that the dominant neoconservative way of thinking has thoroughly infected both parties’ perceptions of how a foreign policy is supposed to work, leading official Washington to see everything in terms of us and them while at the same time exonerating every American misstep by citing the largely bogus national security argument to explain places like Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tGeraldi d\u00e9taille le modus operandi<\/em> d’un tel processus, si catastrophique, constamment dans l’erreur, constamment mis \u00e0 jour dans son impuissance et son incomp\u00e9tence. S’il d\u00e9veloppe le cas de Nuland, des neocons<\/em>, etc., c’est parce qu’ils sont comme arch\u00e9typiques de ce qu’est devenue cette non-diplomatie US. Les effets ne peuvent \u00eatre que catastrophiques, et ils sont, effectivement, constamment renouvel\u00e9s dans le mode catastrophique. Il s’agit d’une transformation de substance de cette diplomatie US, d\u00e9sormais compl\u00e8tement investie par les tares du Syst\u00e8me consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme des vertus, et sans cesse plus d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es, accentuant sans cesse les vices de fonctionnement et les effets catastrophiques. L’\u00e9quation surpuissance-autodestruction est parfaitement rencontr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tGealdi termine par une autre pratique fondamentale, qui est la corruption de cette diplomatie par le pouvoir ex\u00e9cutif US lui-m\u00eame. Ces pratiques ont toujours exist\u00e9 mais elles \u00e9taient jusqu’ici contenues dans des normes acceptables. Les postes de convenance d’ambassadeurs des USA donn\u00e9s \u00e0 des soutiens politiques et financiers du pr\u00e9sident sans comp\u00e9tence particuli\u00e8re se situaient, avec les pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents pr\u00e9sidents, autour de 25% des attributions, et en prenant garde \u00e0 pr\u00e9server les ambassades importantes aux professionnels. Avec Obama, on approchait les 40% lors du premier terme, et on d\u00e9passe les 50% pour son deuxi\u00e8me terme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abIdeologues like Victoria Nuland, who might serve as a poster child for what is wrong with the US government, constitute only one element in the dysfunctional White House view of the world and how to interact with it. Former Senior State Department official James Bruno asks \u00ab\u00a0Why does America send so many stupid, unqualified hacks overseas?\u00a0\u00bb For the first time since the Second World War more than half of all US Ambassadors overseas are political appointees rather than career diplomats, yet another instance of President Barack Obama’s saying one thing while running for office and doing another thing when actually in power. Bruno describes an ambassador to Sweden lying drunk in the snow, the current hotel chain owner nominee for Norway who did not know the country was a constitutional monarchy, and a TV soap opera producer pick for Hungary who had no idea what interests the US might have in the country. One Obama appointee Seattle investor Cynthia Stroum actually was forced to resign after running her embassy in Luxembourg into the ground, verbally abusing her staff and spending embassy funds on personal travel and alcohol.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAll of these splendid examples of American officialdom have one thing in common: they gave a lot of money to the Obama campaign. Raising $1.79 million is now the going price for an ambassadorship. Good work Mr. Obama. You promised transparency and have again exceeded all expectations by appointing ambassadors whose lack of qualifications would embarrass the head of state of a banana republic. With Victoria Nuland firmly at the helm of our ship of state in Europe and working to overthrow a friendly government while a group of rich but clueless clowns heads our embassies every American will henceforth know that he or she can sleep safe at night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 20 f\u00e9vrier 2014 \u00e0 06H14<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Naufrage de la diplomatie US : amateurisme, incomp\u00e9tence, corruption Il s’agit effectivement de la diplomatie US, mais nombre des points de l’analyse de l’ancien analyste de la CIA Philip Giraldi, dans Antiwar.com le 18 f\u00e9vrier 2014, pourraient \u00e9videmment \u00eatre repris pour la diplomatie des pays du bloc BAO en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Il y a, dans ce… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[11594,15629,4270,15630,3858,7377,1104,9321,5520],"class_list":["post-73714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-amateurisme","tag-ambassades","tag-autodestruction","tag-convenance","tag-corruption","tag-geraldi","tag-neocons","tag-nominations","tag-nuland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}