...Nicolas Sarkozy's walkout threat

I realize that Sarkozy is something of a drama king (?), but he happens to be right in his own melodramatic way. In fact, said "restrictive regulatory structure" is more than overdue and would have remained in tact if not for a certain someone who might otherwise be our current Treasury Secretary We're looking at you, Phil Gramm..

Sacrebleu!

9/20/2007

I wrote about this the day after Nicolas Sarkozy was narrowly elected the new President of France…

http://serenityknow.blogspot.com/search/label/Nicolas%20Sarkozy

Being a politician that at least leans, if not dives head first towards the right, Mr. Sarko was simply bound to drag his country somehow/someway into what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has appropriately dubbed “Mess-o-potamia”.

Knowing full well what a delicate situation the Western Asian nations presently find themselves in, le dumbass French Foreign Minister with ever so much couth stated his belief that “the world [has] to prepare for a possible war with Iran,” and then had the gall to ‘clarify’ himself by stating of course this is merely the worst-case scenario and that he is not a “warmonger” but rather a “peacemonger”.

The way I see it is that “mongers” in general are bad news - regardless of whatever it is he or she mongers for.

Merely exacerbating the situation is Mr. Holocaust-never-happened Ahmedenijad expressing his desire to lay a wreath at ground zero to pay tribute to those (except the jews, I presume) who paid the ultimate price for their ‘freedom’ on 9/11/2001. I wonder what Mr. 9/11 himself, Rudy Giuliani, feels about that!

“That’s my issue!!! You already have so many of those, Mahoud… and none of yours are too politically convenient for me!”

Sacrebleu! What a mess...

Where Have You Gone, General de Gaulle?

If Nicolas Sarkozy considers himself to be ‘an admirer of America’, then heaven help him and the nation of France. Maybe he thinks a little reverse psychology will do his country some good? “We’ve opposed most all of America’s policies in the past and look how far it’s gotten us!” Very unfortunately for Monsieur Sarkozy, he has chosen an extraordinarily bad time to put his baggage on the sinking ship, U.S.S. Bush & Co., and all the wannabe cowboy photo ops in the world won’t save him. As the fake news portion on The Randi Rhodes Show stated (in so many words); “Now that the French are on our side, America’s fate is definitely sealed!” Ironically, despite his tough talk and affinity towards Sylvester Stallone and the like, Sarkozy’s foreign policy advisor plainly states that ‘[Sarkozy] would never have sent troops [to Iraq].’ His choice in role models might leave something to be desired, but at least the man knows his history:

We were kicked out of Algeria less than 50 years ago, so don’t tell us we don’t understand… We were in Vietnam before you, and our young people died in Vietnam. In France, history is something that counts. Please don’t be angry with us because we remember what happened to us. Is there even a single country of the world, at any time of history, that was able to maintain itself in a sustained way in a country that was not its own, uniquely by the force of arms? Never, not a single one, even the Chinese.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/world/europe/08france.html

Gee whiz! and we’ve been copying off the Chinese too!

In any event, these were certainly wise words, but if I remember correctly, our good President Bush said quite a number of romantic sounding things before he was elected too! Something to the extent of never even thinking of invading and occupying a sovereign nation immediately comes to mind.