14 juin 2014<\/a>, d\u00e9veloppe notamment le th\u00e8me de l’isolement des USA \u00e0 cause de leur politique russe, et, au-del\u00e0, de l’isolement du pr\u00e9sident Obama. Cohen met en cause Obama pour refuser les contacts qui pourraient mettre en question la conception de sa politique russe, notamment, semble-t-il, un refus r\u00e9cent de recevoir Henry Kissinger. Cohen d\u00e9nonce le syst\u00e8me washingtonien g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, le Syst\u00e8me si l’on pr\u00e9f\u00e8re, qui entretient une atmosph\u00e8re terroriste de conformisme qui fait se taire nombre de voix prestigieuses, critiques de la politique russe d’Obama. Cohen cite deux personnalit\u00e9s importantes de la politique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale, plus \u00e2g\u00e9es que lui et qui ont travaill\u00e9 avec plusieurs pr\u00e9sidents US, qui partagent compl\u00e8tement son analyse. Le pr\u00e9sident est isol\u00e9 selon sa propre volont\u00e9 et Cohen crie dans le d\u00e9sert du conformisme-Syst\u00e8me…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThis lack of ability to change policies is evident in the current administration, the scholar believes. I had lunch with two men much older than me, who had served many presidents and who’ve known them personally. And they were agreed that this president more than anyone in their lifetime isolated himself on foreign policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne anecdotal example Cohen cited is Obama’s refusal to talk to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. I have heard whether it’s true or not I don’t know that President Obama has declined to meet privately with Henry Kissinger, who sees Putin twice a year. Kissinger probably knows Putin better than any American statesmen alive today and who has been consulted by so many presidents. Think what we might about Kissinger’s past, but he has already declared his criticism of American policy towards Russia. And Obama wouldn’t want to spend an hour with him, asking Are we doing something wrong? Are we misperceiving the situation?’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt’s no surprise that a leader, who doesn’t take into account various viewpoint on a problem cannot take a rational decision on tackling it, Cohen said. I ask for a president to be a person, who solicits the best and most diverse learned views involving an existing crisis, that’s all A president has to bring in people with conflicting views whose legitimacy is based on their knowledge, their learning. A president who doesn’t do that is going to get us into a crisis that Obama and Clinton got us into.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUnfortunately for America, it’s not only the White house that discourages debate now, but also American society in general, the professor said. There is no debate of public opposition in this country about this, unlike the situation 20-25 years ago, when we had real debates and public fights, he said. I don’t know if they<\/em> [the mainstream media RT<\/em>] know the truth and therefore are not telling the truth, or that they are just caught up in the myths that had been attached to Russia since the end of the Soviet Union. An orthodoxy about Russia has formed in this country over 20 years, he added. And it’s not only wrong, it’s reckless. It led us to this crisis in Ukraine The only way you can break orthodoxy is with heresy. Some of the things I say are regarded as heretical, treasonous, unpatriotic. But heresy is a good thing, when it’s needed.<\/em> […] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhere are our former presidents? We know why President Clinton wouldn’t speak out, because he began that policy. But where is President Carter? Where are the former secretaries of state who pursued other policies? Why the silence? We’ve developed, I fear, a political culture within the establishment that is conformist. Even though the penalty of dissent in our country is cheap, unlike in many other countries.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Isol\u00e9, BHO n’entend pas qu’on crie dans le d\u00e9sert On conna\u00eet le professeur Stephen Cohen, de l’universit\u00e9 de New York. Un de meilleurs connaisseurs des affaires sovi\u00e9tiques puis russes, Cohen est aussi l’une des extr\u00eamement rares personnalit\u00e9s acad\u00e9miques \u00e0 marteler publiquement et \u00e0 tr\u00e8s haute voix son analyse fondamentale selon laquelle les USA s’\u00e9garent compl\u00e8tement… <\/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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3089,15875,6555,3736,6208,8166,1296],"class_list":["post-75351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-cohen","tag-conformisme-systeme","tag-isolement","tag-kissinger","tag-obama","tag-stephen","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75351","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=75351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}