L’U.S. Army en gangs organisés

Tandis qu’on célèbre la formation du gouvernement irakien dans une débauche discrète et obscène d’espérances démagogiquement démocratiques, arrivent des précisions sur la transformation de l’U.S. Army. Les gangs y prolifèrent désormais, à partir de l’engagement dans l’armée de membres de gangs organisés aux USA.

Dans sa chronique du jour sur Antiwar.com, Justin Raimundo décrit le phénomène qui explique encore plus clairement le nombre de crimes de guerre commis par l’U.S. Army en Irak, ainsi que son comportement général prédateur et nihiliste. Raimundo cite notamment un article du Chicago Sun Times : « An extensive piece in the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

» “The Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings, and Vice Lords were born decades ago in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods. Now, their gang graffiti is showing up 6,400 miles away in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods – Iraq.

» “Armored vehicles, concrete barricades, and bathroom walls all have served as canvasses for their spray-painted gang art. At Camp Cedar II, about 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, a guard shack was recently defaced with 'GDN' for Gangster Disciple Nation, along with the gang's six-pointed star and the word 'Chitown,' a soldier who photographed it said. The graffiti, captured on film by an Army Reservist and provided to the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights increasing gang activity in the Army in the United States and overseas, some experts say.”

» Scott Barfield, described by the Sun-Times as a DoD “gang detective,” has identified 320 admitted gang members who have served in Iraq since April 2002. The military police are encountering a growing problem: soldiers who are gangsters in “real” life. Barfield avers that his own investigations have exposed only “the tip of the iceberg.” »

Raimundo propose une note très juste pour mieux faire comprendre la facilité avec laquelle la culture du gangstérisme, si spécifique aux États-Unis (« The gangster is an American icon, long glamorized in folklore, film, and song »), pénètre l’armée des Etats-Unis en même temps que les gangsters eux-mêmes. Il fait un parallèle entre le stéréotype du gangster et la politique des Etats-Unis : « The gangster is the ultimate “unilateralist,” and in this reflects the central organizing principle of U.S. foreign policy in the age of Bush II: might makes right. When gangsters fire-bomb a business that refuses to pay for “protection,” or rub out a rival gang member in a drive-by shooting, they are merely implementing the theory of “preemption,” which is now official U.S. military doctrine. »

Mis en ligne le 22 mai 2006 à 12H16