L’énigme de l’“esprit fermé” de GW

Les Américains, même dans les “Main Stream Medias” (MSM) commencent à s’interroger sérieusement sur la psychologie de leur président. Exemplaire à cet égard est cette analyse de Ximena Ortiz, analyse pour UPI ce 13 octobre. (Ximena Ortiz est éditeur de National Interest online.)

L’article est titré «Understanding W The Man» et nous conduit à des conclusions particulièrement effrayantes sur la psychologie du président, sur son “closed mind”, sur sa vie intellectuelle toute entière gouvernée par des non-réalités, par des images naïves, par des raisonnements absolument spécieux ou sophistiques. Tout cela se fait dans la plus complète franchise, dans une candeur sans faille. C’est une situation fascinante et sans réel précédent dans l’époque moderne de voir le dirigeant de la plus grande puissance du monde, dans un système qui se veut gouverné par la raison et la morale de cette raison, présenter le cas d’une psychologie si complètement détachée de la raison et des réalités du monde.

La réflexion de Ortiz s’appuie sur un commentaire de GW à la suite d’une question, dans une conférence de presse la semaine dernière, à propos de la situation en Irak.

«As has been reported broadly, the president, when asked by Suzanne Malveaux at a press conference about the report citing over 600,000 fatalities in connection to the Iraq War, summarily rejected the findings, claiming it had been thoroughly discredited. Then came the utterance:

»“I do know that a lot of innocent people have died and it troubles me and grieves me and I applaud the Iraqis for their courage in the face of violence. I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they're willing to...you know, that there's a level of violence that they tolerate. And it's now time for the Iraqi government to work hard to bring security in neighborhoods so people can feel-you know-at peace.”

»Any attempt to diagram the absurdity and significance of this statement risks coming up short. Here, at any rate, is an earnest attempt at it.

»The president, in referring to a war he launched, is marveling at the Iraqi society's willingness to tolerate the violence he has in effect brought to their country — willingness and tolerate of course being the operative words. Perhaps he should next wonder why they don't ask for cake. The breadth of his misunderstanding and naivety is simply astounding.

»In some swerve of logic, Bush has decided for the Iraqis that they see the death of, say, their child or children, husband, wife, the descent of their entire country into chaos and hell — all worth it for the sake of what Bush deems to be freedom. It should go without saying that president's conclusion begs a question: what choice do the Iraqis have? Does the president really believe that, given such a choice, the Iraqis would choose ruinous war in exchange for his own vision of freedom?

»We have seen multiple instances before where Bush and his administration attempt to recast or deny Iraq's realities, but W.'s recent musings on Iraqi society are particularly amazing for the lack of political caginess. No strategist devised this bit of political alchemy for Bush, it is too patently amateurish. No, it is W. laid bare -- with frightening implications.

»The statement does, in an unmanicured way, highlight W.'s central rationale for the war in Iraq. Since the administration's pretext for defensive war in bold pursuit of WMD was not born out, W. has had to resort, and seemingly believes, a touchy, feely war rationale that is now being routinely and incongruently trotted out by the most unlikely of pundits. But again, what right do Americans have in making the presumptuous conclusion that Iraqis want the war because they want freedom. Under any circumstances, that would be quite a calculation for a country's people to make, to say nothing of when foreigners make it for you.»

La conclusion venue après une recherche des causes de cette attitude intellectuelle (y compris dans certains commentaires de Barbara, la mère de GW) est effrayante, naturellement : «Regardless of the philosophical origins of W.'s comment, it clearly signals the hermetic closure of the president's mind and the potential for the most childish, erroneous of ideas to germinate there. It also demonstrates the likelihood of going from very, very bad to worse in Iraq — and beyond.»

Mis en ligne le 16 octobre 2006 à 12H19