{"id":77071,"date":"2017-02-03T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/trump-une-contradiction-devastatrice\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T11:54:27","slug":"trump-une-contradiction-devastatrice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/trump-une-contradiction-devastatrice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u00a0: une contradiction d\u00e9vastatrice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:2em\">Trump : une contradiction d\u00e9vastatrice<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8230;Comme nous le disions dans notre dans notre <em>abstract<\/em>\/\u00a0\u00bbchapeau\u00a0\u00bb, en deux articles successifs, \u00e0 trois jours d&rsquo;intervalle, et command\u00e9 en cela par les \u00e9v\u00e9nements dont on conna&icirc;t l&rsquo;extraordinaire v\u00e9locit\u00e9 et la compl\u00e8te incontr\u00f4labilit\u00e9, Patrick J. Buchanan illustre de fa\u00e7on dramatique une terrible contradiction de la politique de Trump, brusquement apparue avec les prises de position de son administration sur l&rsquo;Iran, et implicitement sur la guerre d&rsquo;agression de l&rsquo;Arabie contre le Yemen. Le commentaire de Buchanan est parfaitement illustratif du cas fondamental, et d&rsquo;autant plus appr\u00e9ciable que Buchanan est une des voix les plus respect\u00e9es du groupe dit des pal\u00e9oconservateurs, soit le bloc conservateur (r\u00e9publicain et libertariens) qui repr\u00e9sente la base traditionnelle naturelle de Trump, id\u00e9ologiquement tr\u00e8s structur\u00e9e avec ses positions anti-interventionnistes, <em>AmericaFirster<\/em> jusqu&rsquo;au n\u00e9o-isolationnisme, socialement et culturellement appuy\u00e9 sur des conceptions anti-globalistes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Dans le premier article, du 31 janvier, Buchanan d\u00e9crit la s\u00e9quence constitu\u00e9e de la d\u00e9cision de restriction d&rsquo;acc\u00e8s aux USA de sept pays \u00e0 pr\u00e9dominance musulmane, avec les r\u00e9actions furieuses de l&rsquo;hypergauche progressiste-soci\u00e9tale. Sans aucun doute, il voit tr\u00e8s favorablement la position de Trump, qui affirme ainsi les positions d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es durant sa campagne, le pla\u00e7ant sans aucune doute comme populiste antiSyst\u00e8me ; et il n&rsquo;h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit <strong>de la premi\u00e8re escarmouche d&rsquo;une tr\u00e8s longue bataille qui d\u00e9chirera l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>Dans le second article, du 2 f\u00e9vrier, il analyse les prises de position, de la veille et du jour m\u00eame, de l&rsquo;administration Trump vis-\u00e0-vis de l&rsquo;Iran, et indirectement vis-\u00e0-vis de la guerre au Yemen. Manifestement, pour Buchanan, <strong>il s&rsquo;agit dans ce cas, et compl\u00e8tement \u00e0 l&rsquo;inverse du pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, d&rsquo;une v\u00e9ritable catastrophe, qui met Trump en contradiction compl\u00e8te avec les grandes lignes de sa politique ext\u00e9rieure, dans tous les cas telles qu&rsquo;elles avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 affirm\u00e9es durant la campagne<\/strong>. Avec ces prises de position, Trump se place devant la possibilit\u00e9 d&rsquo;un conflit avec l&rsquo;Iran, qui serait encore plus absurde, bien plus d\u00e9vastateur, au moins tout autant injustifi\u00e9 et sans le moindre int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les USA, que la guerre contre l&rsquo;Irak de 2003, qu&rsquo;il (Trump) n&rsquo;a cess\u00e9 de d\u00e9noncer comme une erreur criminelle et une faute politique aux cons\u00e9quences catastrophiques. <strong>Dans ce deuxi\u00e8me cas, Trump se trouve compl\u00e8tement en ligne avec le Syst\u00e8me, selon le pire qu&rsquo;on puisse imaginer de la politiqueSyst\u00e8me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Il est manifeste qu&rsquo;on se trouve l\u00e0 devant le principal probl\u00e8me que doit affronter Trump. On doit certes le consid\u00e9rer sans \u00e9carter la possibilit\u00e9 que certaines forces bureaucratiques et autres, soit au Pentagone, soit dans les divers relais op\u00e9rationnels en place, aient jou\u00e9 leur r\u00f4le de provocateurs pour mieux embarrasser l&rsquo;administration Trump parce qu&rsquo;elles lui sont hostiles et que le contr\u00f4le de ces divers organismes par l&rsquo;administration Trump est loin d&rsquo;\u00eatre achev\u00e9 ; mais cela, apr\u00e8s tout, fait partie du \u00ab\u00a0principal probl\u00e8me\u00a0\u00bb de l&rsquo;administration Trump\u00a0\u00bb et ne peut \u00eatre trait\u00e9 comme un accident ou un impond\u00e9rable \u00e0 d\u00e9charge. Il est clair, &ndash; c&rsquo;est l\u00e0, le c&oelig;ur de ce principal \u00ab\u00a0principal probl\u00e8me\u00a0\u00bb, &ndash; <strong>que Trump n&rsquo;a pas une politique ext\u00e9rieure et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale assez pr\u00e9cise, et surtout coordonn\u00e9e avec ses objectifs principaux qui sont du domaine de la politique int\u00e9rieure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Plus encore, des aspects non n\u00e9gligeables de cette impr\u00e9cision sont tout de m\u00eame assez affirm\u00e9e pour former une contradiction catastrophique qui est, elle, tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cise : comment peut-il esp\u00e9rer un arrangement durable avec la Russie, notamment en Syrie <strong>s&rsquo;il prend une posture d&rsquo;affrontement direct avec l&rsquo;Iran<\/strong> ? Certes, la Russie et l&rsquo;Iran ne sont pas mari\u00e9s et il y entre eux des divergences mais, d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, la Russie ne laissera pas commettre des actes de destruction massif contre l&rsquo;Iran (dont elle est un gros fournisseur en armement) sans r\u00e9agir, exactement comme dans le cas de la Syrie. Bri\u00e8vement dit, il ne semble pas que Trump ait r\u00e9alis\u00e9 qu&rsquo;une meilleure coop\u00e9ration avec la Russie implique le respect de certains engagements de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la Russie, &ndash; et cela valant aussi bien pour l&rsquo;Ukraine, &ndash;o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on s&rsquo;agite, justement pour torpiller un rapprochement entre les USA et la Russie..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>(On notera par ailleurs que l&rsquo;hostilit\u00e9 vis-\u00e0-vis de l&rsquo;Iran, cas d\u00e9j\u00e0 envisag\u00e9e avec instance en 2006-2008 sous l&rsquo;administration GW Bush, a \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9 alors par certains comme un des deux ou trois scenarios o&ugrave;, \u00e0 cause des difficlt\u00e9s militaires consid\u00e9rables \u00e0 pr\u00e9voir et des tensions internes suscit\u00e9es par une telle crise, <strong>on pourrait y voir le d\u00e9but d&rsquo;une phase tr\u00e8s brutale d&rsquo;effondrement des USA<\/strong>. Il est vrai qu&rsquo;un tel conflit, s&rsquo;il se concr\u00e9tisait, pourrait susciter des protestations populaires extr\u00eamement fortes o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on retrouverait, <strong>en un nouveau retournement qui n&rsquo;a rien pour \u00e9tonner dans une telle situation de tourbillon crisique<\/strong>, des opposants d\u00e9sormais classiques de type progressiste-soci\u00e9tal o&ugrave; existe une faction de l&rsquo;ancienne gauche antiguerre, et des partisans de Trump qui ont un engagement antiguerre affirm\u00e9, &ndash; comme celui que d\u00e9veloppe Buchanan.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p><strong>Mais<\/strong> <strong>tout cela, contradictions comprises, fait partie de l&rsquo;\u00e9nigme Trump<\/strong>, dont on doit saluer le r\u00f4le antiSyst\u00e8me d\u00e9vastateur, mais dont on ne peut ignorer qu&rsquo;il (Trump) conserve certains aspects directement h\u00e9rit\u00e9s du Syst\u00e8me. C&rsquo;est d&rsquo;ailleurs un des facteurs, &ndash; il y en a d&rsquo;autres, &ndash; qui nous fait penser depuis l&rsquo;origine que Trump, m\u00eame s&rsquo;il est en train de r\u00e9ussir une affirmation sensationnelle en \u00e9tant plac\u00e9 o&ugrave; il est contre le Syst\u00e8me, <strong>n&rsquo;arrivera pas au terme de ce que lui s&rsquo;est fix\u00e9 comme mission (<em>America Great Again<\/em>)<\/strong>. Par contre, il parviendra au terme de la Mission dont il est investi, nous dirions quasiment par une n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 transcendante, et dont il ignore sans doute tous les tenants et les aboutissants ; ce terme-l\u00e0, <strong>c&rsquo;est la destruction de l&rsquo;artefact am\u00e9ricaniste en terme de puissance principale sous la forme actuelle des USA au service du Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>, sans doute par la voie de la d\u00e9sint\u00e9gration et de la d\u00e9structuration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Dans le cas qui nous occupe (Iran, Yemen), Trump satisfait une partie de l'\u00a0\u00bbopposition\u00a0\u00bb-Syst\u00e8me qui s&rsquo;est d\u00e9cha&icirc;n\u00e9e contre lui (les bellicistes type McCain-Graham\/<em>neocons<\/em>, tous partisans d&rsquo;Hillary Clinton puisque dans ce cas Trump faut le boulot d&rsquo;Hillary) mais il ne diminuera en rien, nous dirions m\u00eame bien au contraire tant le cas est pathologique et obsessionnel, l&rsquo;hyst\u00e9rie anti-Trump de la partie progressiste-soci\u00e9tale. <strong>Ce point est \u00e9galement int\u00e9ressant, cette fois pas au d\u00e9savantage du Trump charg\u00e9 d&rsquo;une \u00ab\u00a0Mission\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>&#8230; Ce cas iranien qui tendrait s&rsquo;il se prolonge dans ce sens \u00e0 lui ramener une partie de ses \u00ab\u00a0opposants\u00a0\u00bb, exacerbe d&rsquo;autant plus \u00e0 cause du r\u00e9flexe signl\u00e9 plus haut la partie progressiste-soci\u00e9tale anti-Trump qui est anim\u00e9e d&rsquo;une telle hyst\u00e9rie furieuse qu&rsquo;elle ne veut rien, absolument rien savoir de l&rsquo;am\u00e9nagement de l&rsquo;opposition anti-Trump puisqu&rsquo;elle travaille ouvertement \u00e0 son \u00e9limination politique, sinon \u00e0 son \u00e9limination physique. <strong>On rejoint ici, par un autre biais, la remarque faite ci-dessus entre parenth\u00e8ses sur l&rsquo;effondrement des USA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Les deux articles de Buchanan, sur son site <em>Buchanan.org<\/em>, sont <a href=\"http:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/the-first-firestorm-126483\">du 31 janvier<\/a> (&laquo; <em>Quelles que soient les insultes dont on les affuble, les gens de la classe moyenne US sont pr\u00eats \u00e0 se battre&#8230; Ils se sont tourn\u00e9s vers Trump pour qu&rsquo;il les conduise<\/em> &raquo;) et <a href=\"http:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/coming-clash-iran-126494\">du 2 f\u00e9vrier<\/a> (&laquo; <em>On pensait que Trump <\/em>[avait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu pour nous d\u00e9sengager] <em>de ces guerres, et non pour agiter des menaces inconsid\u00e9r\u00e9es contre l&rsquo;Iran qui est trois fois plus grand que l&rsquo;Irak et qui a comme premier partenaire et fournisseur d&rsquo;armements Vladimir Poutine<\/em> &raquo;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>______________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">The First Firestorm<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That hysterical reaction to the travel ban announced Friday is a portent of what is to come if President Donald Trump carries out the mandate given to him by those who elected him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The travel ban bars refugees for 120 days. From Syria, refugees are banned indefinitely. And a 90-day ban has been imposed on travel here from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Was that weekend-long primal scream really justified?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As of Monday, no one was being detained at a U.S. airport.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Yet the shrieking had not stopped. All five stories on page one of Monday&rsquo;s Washington Post were about the abomination. The New York Times&rsquo; editorial, \u00ab\u00a0Trashing American Ideals and Security,\u00a0\u00bb called it bigoted, cowardly, xenophobic, Islamophobic, un-American, unrighteous.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This ban, went the weekend wail, is the \u00ab\u00a0Muslim ban\u00a0\u00bb of the Trump campaign. But how so, when not one of the six largest Muslim countries &mdash; Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Turkey &mdash; was on the list? Missing also were three-dozen other Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Of the seven countries facing a 90-day ban, three are U.S.-designated state sponsors of terror, and the other four are war zones. Clearly, this is about homeland security, not religious discrimination.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The criterion for being included in the travel ban appears to be that these places are the more likely breeding grounds for terrorists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Yet there are lessons for the Trump White House in the media-stoked panic and outrage at the end of his first week in office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>First, Steve Bannon&rsquo;s observation that the media are \u00ab\u00a0the opposition party,\u00a0\u00bb is obviously on target. While Sen. Chuck Schumer was crying on camera that the ban was \u00ab\u00a0un-American,\u00a0\u00bb the media were into the more serious business of stampeding and driving the protesters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A second lesson is one every White House learns. Before a major decision is announced, if possible, get everyone&rsquo;s input and everyone on board to provide what Pat Moynihan called the \u00ab\u00a0second and third echelons of advocacy.\u00a0\u00bb Those left out tend to leak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A third lesson Trump should learn is that the establishment he routed and the city he humiliated are out to break him as they broke LBJ on Vietnam, Nixon on Watergate, and almost broke Reagan on the Iran-Contra affair.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While the establishment may no longer be capable of inspiring and leading the nation, so detested is it, it has not lost its appetite or its ability to break and bring down presidents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And Trump is vulnerable, not only because he is an envied outsider who seized the highest prize politics has on offer, but because his agenda would cancel out that of the elites.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>They believe in open borders, free trade, globalization. Trump believes in securing the Southern border, bringing U.S. industry home, economic nationalism, \u00ab\u00a0America First.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>They want endless immigration from the Third World to remake America into the polyglot \u00ab\u00a0universal nation\u00a0\u00bb of Ben Wattenberg&rsquo;s utopian vision. Trump&rsquo;s followers want back the America they knew.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Our foreign policy elites see democratization as a vocation and an autocratic Russia as an implacable enemy. Trump instead sees Moscow as a potential ally against real enemies like al-Qaida and ISIS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is another reason for the reflexive howl at Trump&rsquo;s travel ban. The establishment views it, probably correctly, as the first move toward a new immigration policy, built on pre-1965 foundations, and rooted in a preference for Western-Christian immigrants first.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When the Times rages that \u00ab\u00a0American ideals\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0traditional American values\u00a0\u00bb are under attack by Trump, what they really mean is that their ideology and agenda are threatened by Trump.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We are headed for a series of collisions and crises, and what has happened in Europe will likely happen here. As the Third World invasion and growing Islamization of the Old Continent &mdash; which the EU has proven unable to stop &mdash; has discredited centrist parties and continuously fed a populist-nationalist uprising there, so may it here also.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And Trump not only appears to have no desire to yield to his enemies in politics and the media, he has no choice, as he is now the personification of a surging Middle American counterrevolution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Undeniably, there are great numbers of Americans who agree with the libels the Times showered on Trump and, by extension, his backers whom Hillary Clinton designated \u00ab\u00a0the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic &hellip; deplorables.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But by whatever slurs they are called, Middle Americans seem prepared to fight. And history shows that such people do not calmly accept the loss of what is most precious to them &mdash; the country they grew up in, the country they love.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>They have turned to Trump to lead them. Why should he not, having been raised up by them, and knowing in his own heart what the establishment and the media think of him and would do to him?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ten days in, and already it is \u00ab\u00a0Game On!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Patrick J. Buchanan<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>_______________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">The Coming Clash With Iran<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When Gen. Michael Flynn marched into the White House Briefing Room to declare that \u00ab\u00a0we are officially putting Iran on notice,\u00a0\u00bb he drew a red line for President Trump. In tweeting the threat, Trump agreed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>His credibility is now on the line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And what triggered this virtual ultimatum?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Iran-backed Houthi rebels, said Flynn, attacked a Saudi warship and Tehran tested a missile, undermining \u00ab\u00a0security, prosperity, and stability throughout the Middle East,\u00a0\u00bb placing \u00ab\u00a0American lives at risk.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>But how so?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Saudis have been bombing the Houthi rebels and ravaging their country, Yemen, for two years. Are the Saudis entitled to immunity from retaliation in wars that they start?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Where is the evidence Iran had a role in the Red Sea attack on the Saudi ship? And why would President Trump make this war his war?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As for the Iranian missile test, a 2015 U.N. resolution \u00ab\u00a0called upon\u00a0\u00bb Iran not to test nuclear-capable missiles. It did not forbid Iran from testing conventional missiles, which Tehran insists this was.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Is the United States making new demands on Iran not written into the nuclear treaty or international law &mdash; to provoke a confrontation?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Did Flynn coordinate with our allies about this warning of possible military action against Iran? Is NATO obligated to join any action we might take?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Or are we going to carry out any retaliation alone, as our NATO allies observe, while the Israelis, Gulf Arabs, Saudis and the Beltway War Party, which wishes to be rid of Trump, cheer him on?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bibi Netanyahu hailed Flynn&rsquo;s statement, calling Iran&rsquo;s missile test a flagrant violation of the U.N. resolution and declaring, \u00ab\u00a0Iranian aggression must not go unanswered.\u00a0\u00bb By whom, besides us?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Saudi king spoke with Trump Sunday. Did he persuade the president to get America more engaged against Iran?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker is among those delighted with the White House warning:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0No longer will Iran be given a pass for its repeated ballistic missile violations, continued support of terrorism, human rights abuses and other hostile activities that threaten international peace and security.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The problem with making a threat public &mdash; Iran is \u00ab\u00a0on notice\u00a0\u00bb &mdash; is that it makes it almost impossible for Iran, or Trump, to back away.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tehran seems almost obliged to defy it, especially the demand that it cease testing conventional missiles for its own defense.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This U.S. threat will surely strengthen those Iranians opposed to the nuclear deal and who wish to see its architects, President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, thrown out in this year&rsquo;s elections.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If Rex Tillerson is not to become a wartime secretary of state like Colin Powell or Dean Rusk, he is going to have to speak to the Iranians, not with defiant declarations, but in a diplomatic dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tillerson, of course, is on record as saying the Chinese should be blocked from visiting the half-dozen fortified islets they have built on rocks and reefs in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A prediction: The Chinese will not be departing from their islands, and the Iranians will defy the U.S. threat against testing their missiles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Wednesday&rsquo;s White House statement makes a collision with Iran almost unavoidable, and a war with Iran quite possible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Why did Trump and Flynn feel the need to do this now?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is an awful lot already on the foreign policy plate of the new president after only two weeks, as pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine are firing artillery again, and North Korea&rsquo;s nuclear missile threat, which, unlike Iran&rsquo;s, is real, has yet to be addressed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>High among the reasons that many supported Trump was his understanding that George W. Bush blundered horribly in launching an unprovoked and unnecessary war on Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Along with the 15-year war in Afghanistan and our wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen, our 21st-century U.S. Mideast wars have cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of dead. And they have produced a harvest of hatred of America that was exploited by al-Qaida and ISIS to recruit jihadists to murder and massacre Westerners.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Osama&rsquo;s bin Laden&rsquo;s greatest achievement was not to bring down the twin towers and kill 3,000 Americans, but to goad America into plunging headlong into the Middle East, a reckless and ruinous adventure that ended her post-Cold War global primacy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Unlike the other candidates, Trump seemed to recognize this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It was thought he would disengage us from these wars, not rattle a saber at an Iran that is three times the size of Iraq and has as its primary weapons supplier and partner Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s Russia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When Barack Obama drew his red line against Bashar Assad&rsquo;s use of chemical weapons in Syria&rsquo;s civil war, and Assad appeared to cross it, Obama discovered that his countrymen wanted no part of the war that his military action might bring on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>President Obama backed down &mdash; in humiliation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Neither the Ayatollah Khamenei nor Trump appears to be in a mood to back away, especially now that the president has made the threat public.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>Patrick J. Buchanan<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump : une contradiction d\u00e9vastatrice &#8230;Comme nous le disions dans notre dans notre abstract\/\u00a0\u00bbchapeau\u00a0\u00bb, en deux articles successifs, \u00e0 trois jours d&rsquo;intervalle, et command\u00e9 en cela par les \u00e9v\u00e9nements dont on conna&icirc;t l&rsquo;extraordinaire v\u00e9locit\u00e9 et la compl\u00e8te incontr\u00f4labilit\u00e9, Patrick J. 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