Profil supprimé | La manipulation televisee est toujours possible, meme si j'en doute: les USA avaient trop besoin de bonnes nouvelles a donne a leur opinion publique pour se permettre de mettre de cote des jokers dans le genre de SH.
Ce qui est symptomatique, c'est la vision du Times, qui a mon avis est radicalement differente de la vision europeenne du monde, et demontre bien les profondes differences de perception et de culture qui emergent entre l'Europe et l'Amerique du Nord:
(attention, c'est long a lire, mais j'espere interessant)
J'ai repris le texte d'intro du Times pour y confronter ce que je pense etre la reflexion dominante en ce moment parmi les intellectuels et la presse, notamment francaise.
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They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is TIME's Person of the Year
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Si conquerir et ecraser un pays sous un tapis de bombes en dehors de tout mandat legal, en occuper militairement les rues et les infrastructures, pour finalement apres 9 mois de traque s'emparer du pauvre here que l'on a si longtemps presente comme le Hitler du Moyen Orient, avant de l'exhiber devant les cameras du monde entier sans tenir le moindre compte du droit international en la matiere, est le visage de l'Amerique liberatrice, je pense que les films de gentils cowboys et de mechants indiens ont de bonnes annees devant eux, puisqu'ils transcrivent parfaitement l'etat d'esprit de l'Amerique imperiale.
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Posted Sunday, December 21, 2003; 7:45 a.m. EST
Modern history has a way of being modest with its gifts and blunt with its reckonings. Good news comes like a breeze you feel but don't notice; the markets are up, the air is cleaner, we're beating heart disease. It is the bad news that comes with a blast or a crash, to stop us in midsentence to stare at the TV, and shudder.
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Symptomatique: la premiere des bonnes nouvelles est la hausse des marches financiers. Le recul de la faim dans le monde, ou un remede contre le SIDA ne viendrait qu'apres, puisque l'on trouve en troisieme position les maladies cardio-vasculaires (entierement dues a notre mode d'alimentation degenere). En deuxieme position, c'est un magnifique reve, puisque l'air que nous resprions serait plus pur: quid de Kyoto et des 50% de rejets mondiaux de CO2 dont serait directement responsables les USA, responsabilite qu'ils refusent d'assumer ? Quid des recherches petrolieres en Alaska au milieu des parcs naturels ?
XXXX (ma memoire me joue des tours...) a bien raison quand il remarque qu'il n'y a pas pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre.
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Maybe that's why we are startled by gratitude in the season of peace. To have pulled Saddam Hussein from his hole in the ground brings the possibility of pulling an entire country out of the dark. In an exhausting year when we've been witness to battles well beyond the battlefields?in the streets, in our homes, with our allies?to share good news felt like breaking a long fast, all the better since it came by surprise. And who delivered this gift, against all odds and risks? The same citizens who share the duty of living with, and dying for, a country's most fateful decisions.
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La debute l'apologie du Soldat, avec un grand S. On est pas loin de John Wayne et d'Alamo... On notera aussi la rethorique simplissime, comme quoi il convient de sortir le pays des tenebres dans lesquelles ces longues annees de SH l'ont plonge. Est ce le Dark Side of the Force ou Sauron etendant son emprise du Mordor sur les Terres du Milieu ? Qu'importe, le Gondor/USA a vaincu. Enfin, l'epique ne devrait il pas etre limite a la litterature ou au cinema ? Ne parle t'on pas de vies humaines brisees ? D'un million de personnes etant decede pendant une decennies des consequences d'un embargo abject que seuls les USA persistaient a maintenir depuis 1994 ?
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Scholars can debate whether the Bush Doctrine is the most muscular expression of national interest in a half-century; the generals may ponder whether warmaking or peacekeeping is the more fearsome assignment; civilians will remember a winter wrapped in yellow ribbons and duct tape. But in a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them.
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Passez moi le mouchoir, je pleure deja a chaudes larmes... Les poilus dans les tranchees, les cadavres devores par les requins de l'Indianapolis, les mitrailleuses allemandes fauchant les braves pendant Overlord. Que d'images cherchent on a suscite par ces emotions faussement retranscrites ? Oui, les soldats meurent. Oui, la plupart ne se sont pas engages dans ce but, mais juste pour echapper a la rue et a la misere.
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For uncommon skills and service, for the choices each one of them has made and the ones still ahead, for the challenge of defending not only our freedoms but those barely stirring half a world away, the American soldier is TIME's Person of the Year.
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J'adore cette apologie du soldat apportant la paix dans le monde. Le soldat devient dans l'imaginaire americain le porte drapeau du monde libre et de la democratie, reprenant le flambeau abandonne par le missionnaire evangelisateur, qui lui apportait la civilisation aux sauvages. Mais le procede intellectuel reste le meme.
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TIME followed a single platoon from the army's 1st armored Division, to watch its life on the line and glimpse what the world's largest army can do while all the expectations for it are changing. There is no such thing as a typical platoon, but every one has a story to tell, about the costs of war and the price of peace and what you learn getting from one to the next. It is worth remembering that our pilots and sailors and soldiers are, for starters, all volunteers, in contrast to most nations, which conscript those who serve in their armed forces. Ours are serving in 146 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The 1.4 million men and women on active duty make up the most diverse military in our history, and yet it is not exactly a mirror of the country it defends. It is better educated than the general population and overweighted with working-class kids and minorities. About 40% of the troops are Southern, 60% are white, 22% are black, and a disproportionate number come from empty states like Montana and Wyoming. When they arrive at the recruiter's door, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TIME, "they have purple hair and an earring, and they've never walked with another person in step in their life. And suddenly they get this training, in a matter of weeks, and they become part of a unit, a team. They're all sizes and shapes, and they're different ages, and they're different races, and you cannot help when you work with them but come away feeling that that is really a special thing that this country has."
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Il ne me reste qu'une seule remarque: cette tirade n'aurait pas denoter dans Full Metal Jacket.
C'est proprement terrifiant. |