Maverick a écrit:Ghinzani a écrit:sccc a écrit:Ghinzani a écrit:Le Général éliminé n'est pas un enfant de coeur. il préparait une attaque d'envergure visant à éliminer un nombre conséquent d'américains.
Mais oui.
Suivant radio Netanyahu.
Et bien prouve moi que je me trompe.
Ayé (en fait j'ai lu ça ce matin.... donc c'est un vieux ayé..)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/trump-suleimani.html
Où on apprend que, comme ils le font d'habitude, afin de guider le président sans le dire vers la mesure qu'ils veulent, ils l'entourent de mesure déraisonnsables...
L'assassinat avait été proposé comme mesure déraisonnable, en pensant que Trump choisirait les raisonnables..
Ce qu'il a fait...
Avant de un ou deux jours plus tard dire "ah mais au fait on devrait en fait le tuer.."
Chose que Obama et Bush s'étaient refusé à faire..
Et qui a fait s'équarquiller les officiers qui avaient proposé cette mesure.. parce qu'ils auraient jamais pensé qu'elles seraient acceptées.
WASHINGTON — In the chaotic days leading to the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful commander, top American military officials put the option of killing him — which they viewed as the most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq — on the menu they presented to President Trump.
They didn’t think he would take it. In the wars waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Pentagon officials have often offered improbable options to presidents to make other possibilities appear more palatable.
After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shiite militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad, according to Defense Department and administration officials.
By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.
Mais le plus important est...
[...] some officials voiced private skepticism about the rationale for a strike on General Suleimani, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American troops over the years. According to one United States official, the new intelligence indicated “a normal Monday in the Middle East” — Dec. 30 — and General Suleimani’s travels amounted to “business as usual.”
That official described the intelligence as thin and said that General Suleimani’s attack was not imminent because of communications the United States had between Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and General Suleimani showing that the ayatollah had not yet approved any plans by the general for an attack. The ayatollah, according to the communications, had asked General Suleimani to come to Tehran for further discussions at least a week before his death.
[...]
On Capitol Hill, Democrats voiced growing suspicions about the intelligence that led to the killing. At the White House, officials formally notified Congress of a war powers resolution with what the administration said was a legal justification for the strike.
General Suleimani, who was considered the most important person in Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei, was a commanding general of a sovereign government. The last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country was during World War II, when the American military shot down the plane carrying the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
But administration officials are playing down General Suleimani’s status as a part of the Iranian state, suggesting his title gave him cover for terrorist activities. In the days since his death, they have sought to describe the strike as more in line with the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, who died in October in an American commando raid in Syria.
Donc on décrit un homme qui a passé sa vie à défendre son pays (guerre Iran-Irak, provoquée en sous-main par les Etats-Unis, la Grande Bretagne et la France... via le soutien à l'Irak)..
Qui a combattu et défait les sectes islamistes comme Daesh ou Al Qaida (où en serait l'Irak et la Syrie actuellement ? )
Etc..
Comme un terroriste.
Quelqu'un l'autre jour l'a encore mieux dit à la radio, le fait que c'était honteux de qualifier un militaire de carrière ainsi.
But the Iranians viewed the strikes as out of proportion to their attack on the Iraqi base and Iraqis, largely members of Iranian-backed militias, staged violent protests outside the American Embassy in Baghdad. Mr. Trump, who aides said had on his mind the specter of the 2012 attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, became increasingly angry as he watched television images of pro-Iranian demonstrators storming the embassy. Aides said he worried that no response would look weak after repeated threats by the United States.
When Mr. Trump chose the option of killing General Suleimani, top military officials, flabbergasted, were immediately alarmed about the prospect of Iranian retaliatory strikes on American troops in the region. It is unclear if General Milley or Mr. Esper pushed back on the president’s decision.
Maintenant, qu'on a fait le boulot, qu'on a été trop gentil pour le faire, alors qu'on affirmait rien contrairement à toi, démontre nous ta thèse...
Puisque la nôtre est démontrée...
Hugues