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Zugswang

October 1st, 2007

Where are we going? The question everyone is asking regarding Iran. It seems the world is living through moments similar to those preceding the intervention in Iraq. Where is the formidable armada, which we learned through web news was on its way to the Persian Gulf? Forty armed American ships. Has this fleet turned back? Has it changed course? Is it a intimidation maneuver or the preparation for an attack on Iran, including a nuclear one?

We can't rely on our press or our politicians to inform us. Coming from France, we only have the words of our minister of foreign affairs, Bernard Koushner. You can find his statements here. What is going on in this man's head? In my opinion, not much anymore. This founder of Doctors of the World, who has become an unconditional supporter of GMOs, "the only solution to solve the problem of hunger in the world," is aging. What happens to aging men? Either they gain some wisdom and perspective, or vanity and ambition end up consuming them. At the end of the journey, they end up, as King David wrote, "on the path of everyone." See my comic book Bible, page &&&.

Raymond Barre recently passed away. On his deathbed, he made a final appearance on television to present "his book." A work in which, suddenly, he denounced what had been the main driving force of Jacques Chirac's entire life: ambition. A brilliant discovery, a brilliant revelation. He looked miserable, like an old man whose suitcases were already packed and who was about to leave, in complete indifference.

Yes, we are not much, like the passengers of a train, whom a green-uniformed conductor, wearing a matching cap, can, after casually inspecting our train tickets, tell us, without shouting "next station":

• "You? You get off at the next station."
• "But..."
• "No need to take any luggage, even light. This customs won't let anything through."
• "I'm getting off... where? Is there a connection?"
• "I don't know, sir. My job is to check the tickets and inform passengers when they have to get off at the next station."

Raymond Barre had received a visit from the man in green. He knew he was going to "get off at the next station." Tired, he made some incoherent remarks in front of a bored journalist. Everyone has already forgotten his book, which he could have titled:

• "When I have nothing to say, I say it"

Remember the end of Mitterand. They even made a film about it: "The Luxembourg Promenader" with the excellent actor Michel Bouquet. Riddled with terminal cancer, he continued, in the last moments of his life, to do what he had always done: to fascinate his surroundings. It seems that, with a vast culture, he could seduce. I knew a man named de Barbarin, former editor of the newspaper Le Provençal, now retired in his vast property in the south of France. A convinced socialist, he spoke of his meetings with Mitterand, who had kept him under his spell. Yet he couldn't ignore all that the man had done.

Do you remember those scenes from the film where Mitterand is searching for a closing line, and for that, he goes through others' words. He is looking for the word that would make him enter into posterity, while everyone already doesn't care. You saw him, alone inside the Panthéon, lying on the floor like a corpse. When he meets the young journalist to whom he had entrusted the task of talking about him, it's a stone corpse he shows him, in a basilica. You saw his last performance, this photo of him, deceased, covering a double page of a major magazine.

The exit of a dog from history.

Where does François Mitterand suck dandelions by the root? You know? I don't and I don't care. Everyone doesn't care. Sic transit gloria mundi.

I have met politicians here and there. I have never been fascinated by any of them, and I don't think that if I had met François Mitterand it would have been any different. But it's amazing how vanity leads the world. Look at this photo:

Summer 2007: The Sarkozy - Bush meeting

On the right, one of the most powerful men on the planet, who is forced to provide, in his speeches, the proper names he must spell phonetically, to avoid mispronouncing them. A man who, before becoming president of the United States, had never left the country. An American reader, Eric Coutou, the son of one of my old friends, who has lived in the USA for a long time, sent me this map of the country, as seen by the average American. A vision that must also be that of Bush:

The world according to George Bush

We already know what Bernard Koushner has in his head: not much, just a lot of vanity and ambition. What is in George Bush's head?

Do you remember the first scene of the movie "Pretty Woman"? There we see a black man crossing a square saying:

• "Everyone has a dream. What is your dream?"

Who could tell me what Nicolas Sarkozy's dream is, "dangerously intelligent"? We wonder. Why does he seem to want to take Tony Blair's place as an American supporter? For what compensation, under what deal. Is he, like the former Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, seduced by "The American Challenge" (title of one of his books).

I serve you the news of the day: a video showing Brzezinski, former advisor to President Carter on defense issues.

September 29, 2007:

Speech by Zbigniew Brzezinski, former advisor to the President on defense issues in the United States
Speech before an imminent Senate vote (what will be the agenda?)

Source:

****http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hmag_brzezinski-prevoit-la-provocation-d_news

What do we see on this video? Many empty seats. It's not without reminding the speech of Senator Byrd in the Senate, before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, on February 12, 2003, in front of an empty hall. To compare with his speech on October 18th, following the outbreak of hostilities.

Who wrote "history does not repeat itself: it stutters"?

The Zugswang

The statements of the "formal advisor of President Carter for security" are remarkably precise. I remember the speech given by one of the two pilots of the stealth F-117A plane in the movie "The Heart of the War":

• "It's something to constitute the first act of a war that will free an entire people."

And these men go off at night, striking one of Saddam Hussein's properties, where he was supposed to reside, according to the information of the American intelligence services (...). A bombing that partially missed its target and caused some "collateral damage" among the civilian population of Baghdad.

What kind of brainwashing is being served this time to the sailors on board the forty...