“On-a-ga-gné ! On-a-ga-gné !”

“On-a-ga-gné ! On-a-ga-gné !”

Mark LeVine avait un fils de six semaines lors de l’attaque 9/11. Son fils a été, avant-hier, le plus impatient, le plus excité, le plus enthousiaste à la nouvelle de la mort de ben Laden, pour un événement dont il ne sait rien de l’essentiel puisque ben Laden est absolument, complètement associé à 9/11 dans la narrative US.

De même, remarque LeVine, les foules qui manifestèrent leur joie, aux USA, à l’annonce de la mort de ben Laden, le firent à la façon de ces supporteurs d’une équipe de football célébrant la victoire de cette équipe. Nombre de ces étranges “supporteurs”, observe LeVine, étaient trop jeunes pour avoir expérimenté l’attaque du 11 septembre 2001 avec une quelconque maturité. Ils ont célébré la chose comme des potaches, profitant de l’occasion d’une manifestation publique en toute impunité. Quelle signification politique tirer de tout cela sinon qu'il n'y en a aucune, justement, qu'il s'agit de démonstration pour la démonstration, du bruit et du désordre dans les rues pour le bruit et le désordre, drapé dans les plis du drapeau du patriotisme...

LeVine, sur Aljazeera.net, du 2 mai 2011…

«My son Alessandro was only six weeks old when, holding him in my arms, I watched the second tower fall crashing to the ground from the safety of several miles distance.

»It was a surreal moment, while the smoky haze caused by the collapse of the first tower was just clearing when the remaining structure came crashing down. Looking at his big and still clueless eyes, I shuddered to consider the implications of what was already clearly a terrorist attack. But I knew neither of our lives would unfold as I'd imagined they would only an hour or so before.

»Over nine and a half years later and a continent away, Alessandro raced downstairs from his bedroom to watch Obama's speech “so psyched” that he couldn't go to sleep until we processed the implications of the killing of a man who defined our family's life in ways he still cannot begin to imagine.

»A few tears dripped from my eyes as I recalled the sadness that enveloped the lives of all New Yorkers in the days and weeks after the attacks. […]

»Almost ten years later, a chapter in US, indeed, global history, has been closed with the killing of Osama bin Laden. But as the intense protests against the building of a Muslim community centre near Ground Zero last year indicate, the legacy of the attacks will haunt society in the US for years to come.

»It's hard to fault President Obama for his remarks announcing bin Laden's killing. There was no smugness or cockiness, as President Bush was wont to display whenever he boasted of successes real or imagined. But the thousands of people who gathered outside the White House and around Ground Zero in New York had a much more Bush-like mood; one that indicates just how removed so many of us have become from the realities of not only the original attacks, but all that has happened since.

»Network coverage showed people driving around with US flags on their cars, the way sports fans do on the day of the big game. People were chanting “USA! USA!” like they did when the US beat the Soviet Union in that famous hockey game at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. In New York, scores of young people, most too young to have experienced 9/11 in any meaningful way, sang the words to 1969 hit “Na Na Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye,” which has also become ubiquitous at sporting events whenever victory for the home team is near.

»Commentators and celebrants alike were comparing the festive gathering of citizens to the end of conflict in World War Two, which produced such memorable celebrations on the streets of New York. But victory in the “War on Terror” is not near, not least because the war was never primarily about terrorism.»

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