Le titre de la pièce est : “No Exit”

Comme à l’habitude, William S. Lind nous donne (aujourd’hui, sur Antiwar.com) une excellente analyse, — cette fois sur “la révolte des généraux”.

Certes, les généraux ont raison. Mais les défenseurs de Rumsfeld qui disent que les généraux se révoltent parce que le secrétaire à la défense leur impose une réforme révolutionnaire n’ont pas tort, — et Dieu sait si le Pentagone a besoin d’être réformé, et d’une façon révolutionnaire.

Mais l’on doit aussi savoir que la réforme révolutionnaire que veut imposer Rumsfeld va dans la plus parfaite mauvaise direction qui soit: « Instead of attempting to move from the Second Generation to the Third (much less the Fourth), [Rumsfeld’s] ‘Transformation’ retains the Second Generation's conception of war as putting firepower on targets while trying to replace people with technology. Its summa is the Death Star, where men and women in spiffy uniforms sit in air-conditioned comfort zapping enemies like bugs. It is a vision of future war that appeals to technocrats and lines industry pockets, but has no connection to reality. »

Et ainsi de suite... Que nous reste-t-il? Tout en nous expliquant qu’au moins un des “révoltés” mérite le respect, Lind ne nous laisse guère d’espoir.

«  At least one of Rumsfeld's retired general critics, Greg Newbold, understands all this. I've known and respected Greg since he was a captain teaching at The Basic School, and many of us hoped he would be commandant some day, the first commandant since Al Gray who would try to move the Marine Corps beyond Second Generation war (in more than its doctrine manuals).

» But the Imperial Court gets what is wants, and what it wants are not generals like Greg Newbold. It wants senior ‘leaders’ who are, above all, compliant, and it finds no shortage of candidates. They may growl about Rumsfeld in private, but in public they bow and scrape, not only to the SecDef and the catastrophic policies of a failed presidency, but even more to ‘high tech’ and its magical ability to expand defense budgets. At some point they will make a break, because the military does not want to wear the albatross of (two) lost wars. But not until they have extracted the uttermost farthing.

» The play is titled, ‘No Exit’. Unless, unless… Rumsfeld's head should not be the only one to roll. »

Mis en ligne le 29 avril 2006 à 17H55