Kristol croit à la guerre contre l’Iran, — et comment!

William Kristol, le directeur du Weekly Standard et l’un des plus influents parmi les néo-conservateurs washingtoniens, ne cache pas qu’il croit à une guerre contre l’Iran, comme issue inévitable de la crise nucléaire actuelle. Probabilité pour 2007, nous dit Kristol, — ce qui paraît somme toute moins précipité que les objurgations auxquelles il nous avait habitués. Peut-être, aussi, est-ce plus sérieux ?

Le site ThingProgress.org rapporte l’intervention de Kristol sur Fox.News, le 22 août.

KRISTOL: I think we could be in a military confrontation with Iran much sooner than people expect. I don’t think this is an issue that’s going to wait two and a half years until President Bush leaves the presidency. I think he will decide at some point next year — in 2007 — he’ll have to make some very tough decisions about what the U.S. and the world can tolerate in terms of this regime – this apocalyptic, messianic regime — which has made clear that it would use — would feel free to use weapons if it had them, that has very deep ties with terrorist groups, what we could accept in terms of their nuclear program.

QUESTION: What does that mean, what we can accept, does that mean going over and doing something about whatever they’ve got?

KRISTOL: It could mean that. I hope we’re doing things covertly to try to slow down their nuclear progress and I hope we can do much more perhaps and get some allies to do more, but I don’t think a military strike against Iran is at all out of the question. If you saw the president’s press conference yesterday, he said he hoped diplomacy would work, but I was struck by his words. I hope diplomacy would work, it would be helpful if the world spoke with a united voice against Iran, but he’s said over and over, you cannot allow this regime to have nuclear weapons and I think we may come to a real serious choice next year.

Mis en ligne le 24 août 2006 à 09H58