Ernst Hemingway

Il faut écouter cette réponse, lors d'une intervention devant la Federalist Society hier, où l'excellent Marco Rubio explique pourquoi Donald Trump a raison d'agir pour empêcher la dictature islamiste iranienne d'acquérir l'arme nucléaire (on souhaiterait la même lucidité de la part d'au moins un candidat à la présidentielle française) : "It had to be addressed, and I know it’s unpopular.  Believe me, no war is popular.  No conflict, military conflict, is popular.  And right now, frankly, the economic pain that we are inflicting on that regime is so great that there’s no need for military action because we’ve weakened them so much.  But I think victory is ensuring that they never have a nuclear weapon. Every problem in the Middle East, every major problem in the Middle East –  the Houthis attacking Saudi Arabia, the Shia militias that destabilize Iraq, the fighting elements that supported Assad and the destruction of Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon – everywhere you turn, there is one common denominator: the Shia clerics of Iran and their expansionist mentality.  This is an extraordinary historic danger and one that cannot be ignored, because I know we think it’s half a world away, but nothing is half a world away anymore.  Nothing is.  It will reach eventually and threaten our country, and it’s a threat that has to be addressed, and it’s not easy to address these things because it’s not popular to address them. But to ignore them, which would have been the easiest thing for the President to do, frankly – four years in office, leave it for the next person to worry about.  But that’s what he inherited, and he said I’m not going to leave it unaddressed.  But it’s hard, it’s not easy, and it’s difficult, and oftentimes it inflicts pain, economic pain and otherwise.  So we recognize that. But victory is they can never have a nuclear weapon, one way or the other.  If it means they don’t have the money for one or they don’t have the equipment for one, we can never allow ourselves to live in a world – or our children or any of you to inherit a planet – in which those people who have done these things have a nuclear weapon.  They have killed tens and tens of thousands of their own people, slaughtered them in the streets.  Then when you’re injured, they go in the hospitals and they kill you in your hospital bed.  And oftentimes, they will also kill the doctors and the nurses who treated you.  That’s what they do to their own people.  Imagine what they would do to us if they had a nuclear weapon."