Isolé, BHO n’entend pas qu'on crie dans le désert

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Isolé, BHO n’entend pas qu'on crie dans le désert

On connaît le professeur Stephen Cohen, de l’université de New York. Un de meilleurs connaisseurs des affaires soviétiques puis russes, Cohen est aussi l’une des extrêmement rares personnalités académiques à marteler publiquement et à très haute voix son analyse fondamentale selon laquelle les USA s’égarent complètement dans leur politique agressive et hostile vis-à-vis de la Russie. Cette analyse est évidemment renforcée, pour lui, par la crise ukrainienne.

Cohen, qui a été interrogé par Russia Today le 14 juin 2014, développe notamment le thème de l’isolement des USA à cause de leur politique russe, et, au-delà, de l’isolement du président Obama. Cohen met en cause Obama pour refuser les contacts qui pourraient mettre en question la conception de sa politique russe, – notamment, semble-t-il, un refus récent de recevoir Henry Kissinger. Cohen dénonce le système washingtonien général, le Système si l’on préfère, qui entretient une atmosphère terroriste de conformisme qui fait se taire nombre de voix prestigieuses, critiques de la politique russe d’Obama. Cohen cite deux personnalités importantes de la politique de sécurité nationale, plus âgées que lui et qui ont travaillé avec plusieurs présidents US, qui partagent complètement son analyse. Le président est isolé selon sa propre volonté et Cohen crie dans le désert du conformisme-Système...

«This lack of ability to change policies is evident in the current administration, the scholar believes. “I had lunch with two men much older than me, who had served many presidents and who’ve known them personally. And they were agreed that this president more than anyone in their lifetime isolated himself on foreign policy.”

»One anecdotal example Cohen cited is Obama’s refusal to talk to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. “I have heard – whether it’s true or not I don’t know – that President Obama has declined to meet privately with Henry Kissinger, who sees Putin twice a year. Kissinger probably knows Putin better than any American statesmen alive today and who has been consulted by so many presidents. Think what we might about Kissinger’s past, but he has already declared his criticism of American policy towards Russia. And Obama wouldn’t want to spend an hour with him, asking ‘Are we doing something wrong? Are we misperceiving the situation?’”

»It’s no surprise that a leader, who doesn’t take into account various viewpoint on a problem cannot take a rational decision on tackling it, Cohen said. “I ask for a president to be a person, who solicits the best and most diverse learned views involving an existing crisis, that’s all… A president has to bring in people with conflicting views whose legitimacy is based on their knowledge, their learning. A president who doesn’t do that is going to get us into a crisis that Obama and Clinton got us into.”

»Unfortunately for America, it’s not only the White house that discourages debate now, but also American society in general, the professor said. “There is no debate of public opposition in this country about this, unlike the situation 20-25 years ago, when we had real debates and public fights,” he said. “I don’t know if they [the mainstream media – RT] know the truth and therefore are not telling the truth, or that they are just caught up in the myths that had been attached to Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.” “An orthodoxy about Russia has formed in this country over 20 years,” he added. “And it’s not only wrong, it’s reckless. It led us to this crisis in Ukraine… The only way you can break orthodoxy is with heresy. Some of the things I say are regarded as heretical, treasonous, unpatriotic. But heresy is a good thing, when it’s needed.” [...]

»“Where are our former presidents? We know why President Clinton wouldn’t speak out, because he began that policy. But where is President Carter? Where are the former secretaries of state who pursued other policies? Why the silence? We’ve developed, I fear, a political culture within the establishment that is conformist. Even though the penalty of dissent in our country is cheap, unlike in many other countries.”»


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