The Case for Bombing Iran – BY NORMAN PODHORETZ

Richard Hétu, de Cyberpresse (le quotidien La Presse de Montréal) invite ses lecteurs à parcourir un article hors de l’ordinaire :

Sur une pleine page du Wall Street Journal, Norman Podhoretz, néoconservateur émérite, explique pourquoi les États-Unis doivent bombarder l’Iran. Son titre est sans équivoque : The Case for Bombing Iran. L’exergue ne l’est pas moins : I hope and pray that President Bush will do it. À ses yeux, la destruction des installations nucléaires iraniennes est la seule façon d’éviter l’élimination d’Israël et l’islamisation du monde.

Mais qui est Mr. Podhoretz ?

Mr. Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary. His new book, « World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, » will be released by Doubleday on Sept. 11. This essay, in somewhat different form, was delivered as an address at a conference, « Is It 1938 Again?, » held by the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, in April.

Voici un avant-goût de la position de l’auteur :

Although many persist in denying it, I continue to believe that what Sept 11, 2001, did was to plunge us headlong into nothing less than another world war. I call this new war World War IV, because I also believe that what is generally known as the Cold War was actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II. Like the Cold War, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideological roots, pitting us against Islamofascism, yet another mutation of the totalitarian disease we defeated first in the shape of Nazism and fascism and then in the shape of communism; it is global in scope; it is being fought with a variety of weapons, not all of them military; and it is likely to go on for decades.

À lire impérativement pour se convaincre que la modération a bien meilleur goût.