William Kristol, le directeur du Weekly Standard et l’un des plus influents parmi les néo-conservateurs washingtoniens, ne cache pas qu’il croit à une guerre contre l’Iran, comme issue inévitable de la crise nucléaire actuelle. Probabilité pour 2007, nous dit Kristol, ce qui paraît somme toute moins précipité que les objurgations auxquelles il nous avait habitués. Peut-être, aussi, est-ce plus sérieux ?
Le site ThingProgress.org rapporte l’intervention de Kristol sur Fox.News, le 22 août.
KRISTOL: I think we could be in a military confrontation with Iran much sooner than people expect. I don’t think this is an issue that’s going to wait two and a half years until President Bush leaves the presidency. I think he will decide at some point next year in 2007 he’ll have to make some very tough decisions about what the U.S. and the world can tolerate in terms of this regime this apocalyptic, messianic regime which has made clear that it would use would feel free to use weapons if it had them, that has very deep ties with terrorist groups, what we could accept in terms of their nuclear program.
QUESTION: What does that mean, what we can accept, does that mean going over and doing something about whatever they’ve got?
KRISTOL: It could mean that. I hope we’re doing things covertly to try to slow down their nuclear progress and I hope we can do much more perhaps and get some allies to do more, but I don’t think a military strike against Iran is at all out of the question. If you saw the president’s press conference yesterday, he said he hoped diplomacy would work, but I was struck by his words. I hope diplomacy would work, it would be helpful if the world spoke with a united voice against Iran, but he’s said over and over, you cannot allow this regime to have nuclear weapons and I think we may come to a real serious choice next year.
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