Je ne peux m'empêcher d'ajouter ici une petite pièce d'anthologie...

A l’Académie militaire de Washington, dans les années 30, le major-général Smedley Butler, qui travailla longtemps aux côtés de la CIA, déclarait :
« Cela fait 33 ans que je sers chez les Marines et il n’y a pas une méthode utilisée par les gangsters que nous n’ayons utilisée et perfectionnée. Eux utilisent des voyous pour faire peur et éliminer, nous, nous sommes les voyous, les hommes de main du "Big Business", de Wall Street et des Banques. J’ai fait le coup de poing contre le Honduras pour le compte des Compagnies fruitières en 1903. J’ai racketté le Mexique et Tampico pour le compte d’American Oil en 1914. J’ai fait le coup de feu à Haïti et Cuba pour que les gars de la National City Bank puissent y ramasser le pognon. J’ai secoué et vandalisé une demi-douzaine de pays d’Amérique Centrale pour qu’ils se soumettent au racket de Wall Street. J’ai nettoyé à la sulfateuse le Nicaragua pour le compte de Brown Brothers en 1912. J’ai foutu le feu à la République Dominicaine pour American Sugar. En Chine j’ai fait le garde du corps pour Standard Oil et j’ai éliminé ceux qui couinaient. Comme le disent les gars d’Al Capone, j’avais une bonne petite affaire... d’ailleurs, Al Capone est un minable comparé à l’US Army. Lui contrôlait au mieux trois districts de Chicago, nous, nous contrôlons et rackettons trois continents ! »

Une belle pièce, effectivement ...
Où as-tu trouvé cette citation ?

Je n'ai trouvé le lien qu'en anglais...

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

Et en français, la citation est extraite du Monde diplo:

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

Erreur de ma part. Voici le 2eme lien (en français cette fois)

http://vadeker.club.fr/humanite/politique/war_is_a_racket.html

Tiré de Chomsky :

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-1-2.html

NSC 68 is the hard-line extreme, and remember: the policies weren't just theoretical -- many of them were actually being implemented. Now let's turn to the other extreme, to the doves. The leading dove was undoubtedly George Kennan, who headed the State Department planning staff until 1950, when he was replaced by Nitze -- Kennan's office, incidentally, was responsible for the Gehlen network.

Kennan was one of the most intelligent and lucid of US planners, and a major figure in shaping the postwar world. His writings are an extremely interesting illustration of the dovish position. One document to look at if you want to understand your country is Policy Planning Study 23, written by Kennan for the State Department planning staff in 1948. Here's some of what it says:

we have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population....In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity....To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives....We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

PPS 23 was, of course, a top-secret document. To pacify the public, it was necessary to trumpet the "idealistic slogans" (as is still being done constantly), but here planners were talking to one another.

Along the same lines, in a briefing for US ambassadors to Latin American countries in 1950, Kennan observed that a major concern of US foreign policy must be "the protection of our [i.e. Latin America's] raw materials." We must therefore combat a dangerous heresy which, US intelligence reported, was spreading through Latin America: "the idea that the government has direct responsibility for the welfare of the people."

US planners call that idea Communism, whatever the actual political views of the people advocating it. They can be Church-based self-help groups or whatever, but if they support this heresy, they're Communists.

This point is also made clear in the public record. For example, a high-level study group in 1955 stated that the essential threat of the Communist powers (the real meaning of the term Communism in practice) is their refusal to fulfill their service role -- that is, "to complement the industrial economies of the West."

Kennan went on to explain the means we have to use against our enemies who fall prey to this heresy:

The final answer might be an unpleasant one, but...we should not hesitate before police repression by the local government. This is not shameful since the Communists are essentially traitors....It is better to have a strong regime in power than a liberal government if it is indulgent and relaxed and penetrated by Communists.

Policies like these didn't begin with postwar liberals like Kennan. As Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State had already pointed out 30 years earlier, the operative meaning of the Monroe Doctrine is that "the United States considers its own interests. The integrity of other American nations is an incident, not an end." Wilson, the great apostle of self-determination, agreed that the argument was "unanswerable," though it would be "impolitic" to present it publicly.

Wilson also acted on this thinking by, among other things, invading Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where his warriors murdered and destroyed, demolished the political system, left US corporations firmly in control, and set the stage for brutal and corrupt dictatorships.