Visions de GW

Confirmation de ce qui précède : la vision du monde de GW, et de la crise israélo-libanaise par conséquent, n’a pas varié. Le phénomène est considérable de voir le contraste entre une situation politique explosive, changeante, incontrôlable, révolutionnaire, et la vision du président américaniste, immuable, assurée, affirmée, intangible, verrouillée à double tour…. Chaque événement qui montre le contraire de ce qu’il croit le met dans un état de transe dont on peut déduire qu’il juge sa vision du monde confirmée par les événements. C’est le plus étonnant président des Etats-Unis que nous ayons à vous offrir…

Voici ce qu’en dit Maureen Dowd (et d’autres), hier…

« Newsweek's Richard Wolffe says he conducted four “freewheeling” interviews with the president last week, and concluded: “Bush thinks the new war vindicates his early vision of the region's struggle: of good versus evil, civilization versus terrorism, freedom versus Islamic fascism. He still believes that when it comes to war and terror, leaders need to decide whose side they are on.”

» The president sees Lebanon as a test of macho mettle rather than the latest chapter in a fratricidal free-for-all that's been going on for centuries. “I view this as the forces of instability probing weakness,” he said. “I think they're testing resolve.”

» The more things get complicated, the more W. feels vindicated in his own simplified vision. The more people try to tell him that it's not easy, that this is a region of shifting alliances and interests, the less he seems inclined to develop an adroit policy to win people over to our side instead of trying to annihilate them.

» Bill Clinton, the Mutable Man par excellence, evolved four times a day; he had a tactical and even recreational attitude toward personal change. But W. prides himself on his changelessness and regards his immutability as the surest sign of his virtue. Facing a map on fire, he sees any inkling of change as the slippery slope to failure.

» That's what is so frustrating about watching him deal — or not deal — with Iraq and Lebanon. There's almost nothing to watch.

» It's not even like watching paint dry, since that, too, is a passage from one state to another. It's like watching dry paint. »

Mis en ligne le 27 juillet 2006 à 09H19