The figure of the devil haunts the world and the life of Régis the box spring. Large reporter and collaborator of the Tangwall Campagin, accustomed to the most dangerous theaters, he has been walking the world for a long time to explain it to us, and has ventured among those whom the Cursed West, who carry the brand of the Devil, and even holded a microphone. He drew from his experience a work, Who is the devil? Released at Max Milo. The book, frankly exciting, crosses historical reflections, political analyzes and memories.
He is faithful to the method that those who read him and listen to him know: report events as they present themselves to him, also giving the floor to those who do not think like us. He says it in a beautiful way: “I have the curiosity of the other camp. I always say to myself: ” where I am, it happens like that, but how is it, on the other side? ” »» All this may seem very beautiful but becomes very complex when it comes to war and peace, as we see today about Russia.
The box spring refuses the war propaganda of anyone, even democracies. It does not make it an antidemocrat but a man knowing that democracies can lie and that they do so that they are good aware of it. And more, he goes to meet the cursed, not to polish the shoes, but to have their version of the events. The box spring, as we know, interviewed Bashar al-Assad, and he returns to the book on this interview and all that surrounded him.
“What is the journalist for if he will not directly confront on the ground such a militiaman, such a policy, such a dictator?” »»
For having tense the microphone, we wanted to make the box spring his propagandist, and still today his detractors use this to blacken his reputation. The box spring had never been complacent, and he had asked him the steep questions that were essential. Even more, he had noted information to the Syrian dictator, an authentic planetary value scoop, about the secret collaboration between Syrian aviation and Western aviation, in the broad sense, in strikes against the Islamic State.
Beyond press releases
However, the interview is now worth contamination. But what is the journalist for if he will not directly confront on the ground such a militiaman, such a policy, such a dictator? Those who sermnate so do they only know how Joseph Kessel did his job in the last century? We did not forgive the box spring for having told the situation in Syria by not being content to take over the Western press releases. Is journalism just a branch of propaganda?
Over the work, the box spring tells the changing face of the devil, in Libya, Ireland, Serbia, and elsewhere. We do not come out convinced that the box spring is fascinated by the beast to the point of being hypnotized by it, but simply that our journalist is convinced that the human being, everywhere, can become monstrous, atrocious, and that the man, in general, when he wants to make peace, must make it with his enemies.
The world is infinitely complex. To say this does not lead us to relativism, but reminds us that we must always know that we never grasp a one -way a situation, and that it is always part of us. Hence the need to go and stuff your nose directly, at the risk of getting dirty. I note that it also affects the universe of library rats, as the author of these lines. If you read the proscribed authors, you will also be accused of contamination.
We come back to the present time. The record of the last quarter of a century is essentially that of the neoconservative wars. America believed to democratize the world by lining it with bombs. We know the Iraqi disaster. America believed that by dropping Saddam Hussein, it could apply the theory of democratic dominoes in the Middle East. Rather, it opened the breach of Islamism. It is the big lesson in the box spring: at worst can always succeed the even worse.
Who is the devil, the other or the West ?, Régis le Souscier, Max Milo, 240 pages, 21, 90 euros.
