Je sais pas ce qui me dérange le plus: comparer L'Iraq au Mordor ou comparer la victoire de la "coalition of the willing" à celle réussie in extremis par le Gondor.

Greg, franchement attristé...

C'est exactement comme "la guerre des etoiles" à l'époque de la guerre froide et la comparaison avec l'Empire du Mal sovietique (terme repris par l'administration Reagan)....

En lisant ce texte, j'essaye juste de m'imaginer les personnages principaux :
* Tony Blair en Aragorn et ses longs chveux bruns : ca donne plutot un vieux 68-tard adepte des Beatles ;o)
* Bush avec sa barbe blanche et ses habits de lumière (vision d'un meneur de secte ou d'un danseur de disco?) :o)
...quid de Frodo? :o(

.....maintenant que j'y pense, la vision de hordes d'orcs moustachus et barbus courant en djellabas, passant à l'attaque me fait me rouler par terre :o))

Remercions ce moment dedié à la reflexion à cet auteur qui est : 

* soit completement embrigadé par la propagande et qui a voulu apporter sa petite pierre à l'édifice de la gloriole guerriere :o(

* soit fait preuve d'un humour efficace et propre à l'auto-derision de l'actualité....(il a quand meme utilisé la pseudo de Grima Womrtongue...c'est peut etre une indication de derision :o)

Helas, je ne suis pas assez anglophone pour vous faire un commentaire plus poussé, meme si je fais confiance en Tirno qui m'a l'air d'etre plus pointu en anglais....

Enfin, voila mon petit avis sur ce petit texte qui, heureusement, ne restera pas dans les annales litterraires...:o)

Namarië
Julien - Elwë

amusez-vous bien (désolée pour les non-anglicistes):

End of War on Sauron raises more questions about its conduct and
necessity

Source : New Gondor Times
Grima Wormtongue

While the leaders of the alliance including Gandalf and Aragorn have
proclaimed a victory in the War on Sauron questions are increasingly
being raised about both the conduct of the war and itsnecessity.

Archeologists and historians have particularly bemoaned the loss of
priceless artifacts forever lost with the fall of Barad-dur, when
Sauron's fortress was destroyed. These artifacts reputed to date back
to the First Age have caused some in the archeological community  to
condemn what they call the careless and thoughtless way the assault
on Mordor was handled.

Meanwhile months after the fall of Barad-Dur, the Alliance has failed
to capture either Sauron or the Ringwraiths. While the Captains of the
West claim that Sauron and all his works have perished, no body has
ever been found and there are reports that Sauron may be wandering on
the outskirts of Mirkwood in various disguises. This adds yet another
question to the many questions already being raised about the conduct
of the War on Sauron.

Military experts had already condemned the march to the Towers of the
Black Gate as a foolhardy maneuver conducted with too few troops and
point to the heavy casualties incurred during the sieges of Helm's
Gate and Gondor as evidence of the incompetence with which the War on
Sauron was handled.

Various questions have also been raised as to whether the War on
Sauron was even necessary in the first place.

"After Sauron's defeat at the hands of the Last Alliance he  was in
no shape to mount any kind of assault on the West. His fortresses were
in ruins, his armies were demoralized and the only thing he wanted was
to recover a small piece of property, a trifle that was looted from
him by Allied troops during the former war," The Wizard Saruman had
argued, "A mere ring. If it had only been turned over to him, this
entire conflict could be avoided."

While Gandalf and others have argued that the so-called "One Ring"
would have singlehandedly allowed Sauron to crush the West, other
experts have questioned whether any ring could indeed have such
capabilities and suggested that the Ring was never actually recovered
after it had been lost by Isildur but that the leaders of the Alliance
had deceived the Peoples of the West into believing that Sauron was on
the verge of gaining possession of it in order to trigger a war with
Mordor. Alliance leaders have responded indignantly to such
accusations but nevertheless no real evidence bas been presented that
the One Ring even existed outside of the claims of a handful of
insiders at the Council of Elrond. Gandalf's insistence that the One
Ring has now been destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom has done little
to boost his credibility with a story that to many far too
conveniently disposes of the evidence before any objective parties
have had a chance to examine it.

"We kept hearing all the time about Sauron using this supposed ring
to enslave the free peoples of Middle Earth and now it turns out that
Sauron never even had this ring to begin with," Political activist
Bill Fenry said, "I feel deceived and lied to."

Many of those who had voiced opposition to war and pushed for a
peaceful settlement with Sauron have also questioned whether diplomacy
could have been used to avert a terrible conflict citing  frequent
emmisaries from Mordor that were turned away by Rohan and Gondor
causing some to speculate on the motives of the Alliance leadership in
wanting to bring about an unnecessary war.

Mithril has been cited as one economic reason driving the conflict
with anti-war activists citing the assassination of Smaug and the
rebuffed Dwarven colonization of Moria combined with the sudden
appearance of Dwarves at the Council of Elrond as evidence of a
conspiracy aimed at allowing Dwarven interests to take control of
Mithril mines in the possession of Sauron leading to the slogan, 'No
Blood for Mithril.'

Others point to the widespread hostility towards Gondor and the
Western Lands, and particularly towards King Elessar and his policies
as proof that the War on Sauron has failed.

"Yes we may have defeated Sauron but now the Haradrim, the Southrons,
the Easterlings and the Orcs and Goblins hate us," Political analyst
Shelob said, "And what point is there in defeating a single Sauron
when our foreign policy causes us to be so hated that a thousand more
Saurons will rise in his place."

Particularly worrying to Shelob are polls that show that Orc hatred
of humans is at an all time high with over 90 percent of Orcs
expressing a desire to devour human flesh.

"We can't hope to defeat the Orcs with weapons. We must understand why
they hate us and what we can do to stop them from hating us and
wanting to eat our flesh. For example virtually every Orc surveyed has
expressed dissatisfaction with Gondor's foreign policy of killing Orcs
and overthrowing Sauron. Those are statistics we need to really pay
attention to."

One thing is certainly clear that with Sauron possibly still on the
loose,many people questioning whether the existence of the One Ring
wasn't a fraud meant to create support for an unjust war, the loss of
valuable archeological treasures at Barad-Dur, exposure of military
blunders by the alliance and continuing raids by Orcs and Goblins;
whether or not the so-called War on Sauron has ended in victory or
defeat remains in question.]]> Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.jrrvf.com/fluxbb/viewtopic.php?pid=10038#p10038