Posté le Samedi 7 avril 2007 par jc durbant
Qu’il est loin, le temps où les officiers capturés n’étaient censés divulguer que leurs nom, grade et numéro matricule!
Au lendemain des images ignominieuses (même celles d’Abu Ghraib n’avaient pas semblé si obscènes et si humiliantes) de la libération par l’Iran de ce qu’on a peine à appeler des soldats britanniques, il faut relire cet extrait du discours de Churchill au lendemain d’une autre, toutes proportions gardées, “défaite sans guerre”, à savoir celle des Accords de Munich de 1938:
“We have suffered a total and unmitigated defeat. … This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor we arise again and take our stand for freedom.” Churchill (1938)
Comme la célèbre phrase de Mill:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” John Stuart Mill
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4 réponses à “Armée britannique: une autre défaite sans guerre (What happened to the British stiff upper lip?)”
8 avr 07 à 20:29
Au Caire, à Paris, Londres et Ottawa.
8 avr 07 à 16:27
Il y a donc des Bidochons au Caire.
8 avr 07 à 15:51
Financial Times
Arab street warms to showman Ahmadi-NejadBy Andrew England in Cairo
Published: April 6 2007
On the dusty streets of Cairo, once considered the most important capital in the Arab world, Egyptians mulled over the recent performance of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, with most concluding he deserved a thumbs-up.
The Iranian president’s eye-catching showmanship as he announced the release of the 15 British sailors and marines seems to have generated admiration laced with a hint of frustration – why couldn’t Arab leaders be like him and stand up to the west?
The fact that Mr Ahmadi-Nejad is the leader of a Persian, predominantly Shia nation, seemed not to matter. “I consider Ahmadi-Nejad a leader of the Arab people. He has the confidence. It upsets me that we don’t have such a leader,” says Mohamed Ali, a 20-year-old student.
7 avr 07 à 18:21
des images ignominieuses (même celles d’Abu Ghraib n’avaient pas semblé si obscènes et si humiliantes)
Ce blog vaut le coup rien que pour lire les conneries de JC Durbant.
C´est vrai que les photos des anglais en train de manger les plats traditionnels iraniens ou en train de jouer aux échecs sont insupportablement “obscènes” et “humiliantes”.
Je crois savoir que Fernando Botero va peindre quelques tableaux.





