Richard Perle critique sévère de l’administration GW

Surprise et marque de la confusion qui règne chez les républicains à l’approche de l’échéance électorale du 7 novembre. Richard Perle a pris une position très critique de l’administration GW Bush, se contentant d’épargner le président lui-même.

La prise de position de Perle reflète également un désordre au sein même des rangs des néo-conservateurs, certains continuant à soutenir l’administration GW Bush. Perle se situe dans un courant neo-con qui attaque depuis longtemps le secrétaire à la défense Rumsfeld mais il porte cette critique bien au-delà, en englobant la structure de l’administration et la bureaucratie.

Al Kamen, dans le Washington Post, présente ces prises de position de Perle.

«“Knowing that there are people who wish to do that,” Perle said, “knowing they are seeking weapons of mass destruction, you would think that we would have put in place a system or at least be working assiduously in the development of a system that would allow us to detect nuclear material entering the New York Harbor or Boston Harbor or what have you.

»“But we haven't done that,” he said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering. “And the reason we haven't done that is hopeless bureaucratic obstruction. Somebody needs to shake that loose.” Perle added that while some have tried to overcome the bureaucracy, no one has succeeded.

»“I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional,” Perle said. “And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.”

»But President Bush , Perle emphasized, is not to blame for this sorry state of affairs. “I haven't the slightest doubt that if one could . . . put this proposition to the president, he would first be shocked to learn that we don't have the capability. Secondly, [he] would immediately order that we develop it.”»

Mis en ligne le 2 novembre 2006 à 10H53