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Originally Posted by Bluesman
I read the text of Sarkozy's speech. A thought occurred to me: the President of France - FRANCE!  - is more pro-American that any Democrat in Congress (except Lieberman, a pariah to the rest of his party).
On the one hand, I am astonished that there's a French politician that could even be elected to high office that didn't make his contempt for the United States a central part of his platform. But I'm not at all surprised that a learned, accomplished, foreign-born man of substance would be a bigger booster of America than the combined strength of the entire Democratic Congressional majority. |
France, or Sarkozy if you will, realizes that its future welfare depends a great deal on how the US fares in the ME. Sarkozy, in particular, realizes France would be better able to influence US policy from a position of friendship than from hostility. Then, of course, it would be nice if Americans got back to drinking French wines.
