Ce ne sont pas seulement dix ans qui séparent l'intervention en Irak de 2003 et aujourd'hui, mais deux mondes.

Le monde d'aujourd'hui est tout à fait différent, d'abord parce que l'Amérique de Barack Obama semble n'avoir que très peu à voir avec celle de l'administration Bush.
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Between the intervention in Iraq in 2003 and today, there are not only ten years, there are two worlds.

It's a wholly different world first, because there seems to be very little in common between the America of the Bush administration and the America of Barack Obama.

A wholly...

So, "forward" it goes. It's a second chance more than a second mandate. This means that President Obama will need to make tough and thorough choices. Going forward can mean keeping the same old path, because moving is more important than being headed somewhere. That's obstination more than progress. But...

Once upon a time, there was Obama. It was only four years ago. A symbol of hope for the whole world because America, through this election, became again what it had always been for other parts of the world, the land of the possible.

The last years have been a...

La politique étrangère est désormais au centre du débat présidentiel. Comment pourrait-il en être autrement, quand la télévision déborde d'obus explosant à la Mosquée omeyyade d'Alep, de menaces de marées noires dans le Détroit d'Ormuz, de la douleur d'avoir perdu un fonctionnaire exemplaire, qui...

Foreign policy is now at the center of the presidential debate. How could it not be so, when the TV screens flare up with shells exploding in the Ummeyade Mosque of Aleppo, with oil spilling threats in the Ormuz Strait, with grieving about the death of an exemplary civil servant,...

America is changing. Not only the United States, not only North America but the whole continent and particularly Latin America. It's a part of the world where I feel more at home than in any other, a continent I feel deeply rooted in. It's a part of the world that...

A new world is rising, in which growing disorder looms on every continent and in which global anarchy prevails.

In the Middle East, where tens of thousands of Syrians are dying in a civil war, we are reminded every day a bit more of the horrors of Lebanon in the...