Démystification massive du système de l’américanisme

Démystification massive du système de l’américanisme

Un certain nombre de commentateurs, essentiellement US et en général des presse non-Pravda, reprennent l’affaire Wikileaks dans sa phase actuelle, du point de vue de la communication et des relations publiques. (C’est effectivement notre approche, sans restriction : les fuites Wikileaks sont une affaire de communication, pas une affaire politique.)

Ils en font en général une défaite majeure pour le système de la communication et les relations publiques du système de l’américanisme ; les agissements, les méthodes, les buts, ainsi que la faiblesse et l’inefficacité du système de l’américanisme (des USA), déjà largement connus et documentés de sources indépendantes et antisystèmes, sont largement confirmées de source officielle. Wikileaks n’a rien changé à la situation politique, il a bouleversé la situation de communication du gouvernement au service du système de l’américanisme.

• Sur Politico.com, site pourtant assez modéré, Ben Smith fait une analyse dans ce sens, et lui à partir du constat assez discutable qu’Obama avait rétabli la situation de prestige des USA par la communication. Quoi qu’il en soit, cette “performance” (contestable) est de toutes les façons réduite à néant, selon Ben Smith, notamment en montrant la faiblesse des USA, et son incapacité à tenir ses engagements auprès de ses alliés. (Le 29 novembre 2010.)

«American popularity has risen dramatically since the Bush administration, with large new majorities from France and Britain to Indonesia and China now viewing the U.S. favorably. And if Obama has been unable to reap as many concrete benefits as he'd hoped from that shift from the international loathing for his predecessor, it did seem to reduce foreign governments' temptation, at least initially, to make the most of the most embarrassing disclosures contained in the documents.

»But the WikiLeaks fiasco crystallizes for Obama a new challenge: restoring the sense that the United States can effectively project its power. The third tranche of documents from WikiLeaks caps a series of failures whose common theme isn't American arrogance or humility, imperial overreach or defeatism but a more basic inability to deliver.

»European allies welcomed Obama's commitment to their priority of fighting climate change but watched in dismay as a planned shift in U.S. policy died in the Senate — a pattern repeated in the successful move by Senate Republicans to block a new arms control treaty with Russia.

»Obama's attempt to use his early momentum to break the Middle East deadlock has made no progress. His hope that a return to diplomacy could change American relations with its two most immediately dangerous antagonists, North Korea and Iran, has so far not materialized. A recent trip to Asia saw him publicly rebuffed by a small ally, South Korea, on trade policy.

»In Afghanistan, meanwhile, the administration remains optimistic that a surge of troops will change the course of a long war, but public confidence is sagging.

»And now the leaks, which Der Spiegel described as “a political meltdown for American foreign policy" that leaves "the trust America's partners have in the country ... badly shaken.” “The U.S. government looks foolish again and to a certain degree looks inchoate in the direction of its foreign policy,”’ said Steve Clemons, a fellow at the New America Foundation. Other governments “are not going to trust the ability of the U.S. to maintain these sorts of secrets.”»

• Sur Antiwar.com, Norman Solomon, beaucoup plus incisif comme à son habitude, met en évidence cette même défaite de communication, ou de relations publiques, que représente l’affaire Wikileaks pour le système de l’américanisme. Il insiste dans ce cas sur les méthodes, les intrigues sordides, l’emploi de la force, etc., tout ce qui est officiellement nié au nom de la vertu officielle, par les sources officielles. Cette fois, ce sont les sources officielles elles-mêmes qui parlent, et la vertu officielle ainsi démentie par la parole officielle.

«With its massive and unending reliance on military force – with a result of more and more carnage, leaving behind immense grief and rage in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere – the U.S. government has colossal gaps to bridge between its public-relations storylines and its war-making realities.

»The same government that devotes tremendous resources to inflicting military violence abroad must tout its humane bona fides and laudable priorities to the folks back home. But that essential PR task becomes more difficult when official documents to the contrary keep leaking.

»No government wants to face documentation of actual policies, goals, and priorities that directly contradict its public claims of virtue. In societies with democratic freedoms, the governments that have the most to fear from such disclosures are the ones that have been doing the most lying to their own people.

»The recent mega-leaks are especially jarring because of the extreme contrasts between the U.S. government’s public pretenses and real-life actions. But the standard official response is to blame the leaking messengers. “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information,” the White House said on Nov. 28.»

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