{"id":512,"date":"2007-08-07T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lmae.net\/?p=512"},"modified":"2007-08-09T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T20:41:03","slug":"he-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmae.net\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"He knows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wretchard du Belmont Club<\/em> examine<\/a> une interview d’un traducteur iraqien pour l’arm\u00e9e US en Iraq par Michael Totten<\/a>. Il conclue \u00e0 l’authenticit\u00e9 des propos en ces termes:<\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t think he’s crazy because I think I have met the type, though not in so extreme a form, typically a smart, sassy guy unable to accept the cheap horrors and rewards of a distorted millieu.
\n[…]A man with the right kind of values in the wrong kind of world<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hammer n’est \u00e9videmment pas fou. Il est n\u00e9 Am\u00e9ricain, en Iraq, comme l’expliquait \u00e0 son fils un r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 hongrois en 1956<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We are going to America,\u00a0\u00bb he said.
\n\u00ab\u00a0Why America?\u00a0\u00bb I prodded.
\n\u00ab\u00a0Because, son. We were born Americans, but in the wrong place.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nous<\/em> sommes nombreux \u00e0 partager cette terrible certitude. Heureusement, contraitement \u00e0 Hammer (nickname du traducteur), je suis n\u00e9 dans un pays plut\u00f4t libre, m\u00eame s’il se pr\u00e9cipite avec d\u00e9lice tous les jours un peu plus loin dans un socialisme de bon aloi, dont Sarkozy ne marquera pas la rupture mais au contraire prolongera ce d\u00e9clin vers l’ab\u00eeme, j’en veux pour preuve son marchandage des otages bulgares de Khaddafi, ses reculades sur le service minimum ou encore sur le nombre de fonctionnaires non remplac\u00e9s suite aux d\u00e9parts en retraite…<\/p>\n

Bref, tout cela m’\u00e9loigne de cette interview fantastique de \u00ab\u00a0Hammer\u00a0\u00bb, notamment son volet sur l’Iraq avant<\/em> sa lib\u00e9ration: corruption, arbitraire, tortures…<\/p>\n

Pour pacifier l’Iraq, il a une solution simple: assurer un approvisionnement continu en \u00e9lectricit\u00e9… pour permettre aux Iraqiens de regarder autre chose qu’Al JihadTV<\/strike> Jazeera:<\/p>\n

Iraqis are paid to set up IEDs. They do it so they can buy gas for their generator and cool off their house or leave the country. Their hands do this, not their minds.<\/p>\n

TV is the most interesting thing to Iraqis. They learn everything from the TV. Right now they only have one hour of electricity every day. Do you know what they watch? Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera pushes them to fight. If they got TV the whole day they would watch many things. Their minds would be influenced by something other than terrorist propaganda.<\/p>\n

Right now they have no electricity. They have no dreams. Nothing. And Saddam messed with their minds. For more than 30 years he poisoned their minds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

En effet: comment s’imaginer un futur meilleur, si tout ce que l’on connait se r\u00e9sume \u00e0 des ann\u00e9es dictature sanglantes, de guerres incessantes (contre l’Iran, contre le Kowe\u00eft, contre les Chiites, les Kurdes, contre les Etats-Unis…) ?<\/p>\n

Enfin, sa vision d’un d\u00e9part US d’Iraq est l’une des plus r\u00e9alistes qu’il m’ait \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9 de lire:<\/p>\n

MJT: What will happen if the Americans leave next year?<\/p>\n

Hammer: Rivers of blood everywhere. Syria and Iran will take pieces of Iraq. Anti-American governments will laugh. You will be a joke of a country that no one will take seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Et plus loin il explique pourquoi les Etats-Unis ne seront plus pris au s\u00e9rieux, exemple \u00e0 l’appui:<\/p>\n

In 1991 the Americans were heroes to the Kurds, but they disappointed the Shia and left them to Saddam. They were not reliable. So the next time, in 2003, some Shia thought they should get help from Iran. They know Iran is not going anywhere. Iran is a more reliable ally than the Americans.<\/p>\n

The Shia never forgot being abandoned by the Americans. They talk about this all the time, still. They know the U.S. will leave Iraq and they will face Al Qaeda alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quitter l’Iraq une nouvelle fois<\/em> produirait les m\u00eames effets que pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment, avec des cons\u00e9quences autrement plus graves: l’Iran aurait le champ libre pour produire sa bombe atomique, plus aucun pays ne voudra accorder aux Etats-Unis une quelconque cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9, plus personne ne voudra coop\u00e9rer avec des alli\u00e9s inconstants (et dangereux), etc.<\/p>\n

Bref, allez lire l’int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 de l’interview<\/a> car en quelques paragraphes cet homme courageux \u00e9tablit un diagnostic concernant l’Iraq, propose des solutions, et envisage les cons\u00e9quences d’un retrait US. Et si vous pouvez l’aider, il souhaite s’\u00e9tablir aux Etats-Unis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wretchard du Belmont Club examine une interview d’un traducteur iraqien pour l’arm\u00e9e US en Iraq par Michael Totten. Il conclue \u00e0 l’authenticit\u00e9 des propos en ces termes: Personally, I don’t think he’s crazy because I think I have met the …<\/p>\n

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