"FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy smells a leader ship gap.... Sarkozy's "active temperament" is the reason he is getting more deeply involved now in world affairs...what seems to motivate the French president is slightly more than mere desire to add another instrument to a beautiful musical sextet. More than a few recent reports say he's increasingly discouraged about the direction the Obama administration is leaning toward on world affairs...The best clue to what's on Sarkozy's mind can be found in a tough speech he gave at the United Nations Security Council during a September session Obama organized on nuclear disarmament. "President Obama dreams of a world without weapons," Sarkozy said, "but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite. Iran since 2005 has flouted five Security Council resolutions" and "North Korea has been defying Council resolutions since 1993." So, "what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community?" Sarkozy asked. "More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe out a UN member state off the map."
Kudos to Sarko for telling it like it is. It's almost humiliating to see the leader of France has more cahones than the
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OK, you made me laugh with the Carter comment.
I gotta admit that it feels weird that I'm here agreeing with France's president and feeling disheartened by our own.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry over the irony that France isn't looking too bad these days. I think France and most of the rest of Europe, even as they have cheered on Obama, are looking at our plunge into socialism and thinking "been there, done that." They have the scars to show for it and may be interested in digging themselves out.
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