Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
I am not so sure that bellicose threats against Iran are useful or creative, but I sure am glad to hear them coming from France. Perhaps a bit discomfiting historically, but some contemporary, cooperative German and French sabre-rattling is a healthy sign.
First, it's not us, and we have done quite too much of that in the past six years.
Second, a healthy, leading Western Europe who does not pander to the U.S. is good for the world.
Third, the U.S. deserves to sit in the second row at this conflagration for the sake of peace; we have precious little diplomatic, non-military capital to bet at this table.
I was pulling for the cute socialist to win the French elections over the summer, but the conservative nationalist may have some use on the world's stage.
First, it's not us, and we have done quite too much of that in the past six years.
Second, a healthy, leading Western Europe who does not pander to the U.S. is good for the world.
Third, the U.S. deserves to sit in the second row at this conflagration for the sake of peace; we have precious little diplomatic, non-military capital to bet at this table.
I was pulling for the cute socialist to win the French elections over the summer, but the conservative nationalist may have some use on the world's stage.
posted by JRB at 11:41 AM
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I'm a fan of Messr. and Madame Sarkozy. I dig they way the intervened in the Libya/Bulgarian Nurse issue and how it royally pissed of the rest of Europe.
Now if the EU can just get around to ratifying a consitution or treaty or whatever they are calling it these days.
I think we should take note with humility and some dismay that the French were right about the Iraq War through and through, and our collective, national derision all things French was stupid.
Also, the Germans just foiled a massive terrorist plot aimed at Americans in Germany with aggressive, serious police work constrained by a decent respect for civil liberties.
I do not suggest that we should seek to be more German or French, but we should give good credit and heed others' wisdom from tiem to time.
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