New York Times, Mark Danner : Taking Stock of the Forever War. Un article d’une clarté cristalline sur les Etats-Unis, le terrorisme et la guerre en Iraq.

Instead of fighting the real war that was thrust upon us on that incomprehensible morning four years ago, we stubbornly insisted on fighting a war of the imagination, an ideological struggle that we defined not by frankly appraising the real enemy before us but by focusing on the mirror of our own obsessions. And we have finished … by fighting precisely the kind of war they wanted us to fight.