I suggest the question is not whether Chirac or Sarkozy will win. The question is "will right win out."
In the end, the high road is the only road to take.
There is a vacuum of leadership...who will fill the void?
And with regard to " þú ert velkominn, Gerðu svo vel"...just because I know love doesn't mean I know all languages. But I do know art. And here is the face of one facet of it...
France's historical legacy is also important. Colonial control of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, and Lebanon has marked the French psyche. France occupied Algeria for more than 130 years, withdrawing only after an eight-year war, which cost at least 300,000 Algerian and 20,000 French lives.[8] Upon Algerian independence in 1962, more than one million French residents of Algeria returned to France; many had been there for generations, and some had intermarried with the Arab and Berber population. As the various French colonies and mandates achieved independence, Parisian politicians had trouble letting go. Today, French officials act as if they never lost their empire. The Quay d'Orsay, where the Foreign Ministry is housed, for example, continues to promote the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (International Francophone Organization), of which fifteen out of forty-nine states are Muslim, as a way to bolster the community and cohesion of former French colonies. Under Chirac, French policy has gone beyond special treatment for the French-speaking Middle East, though, and embraced even the most rejectionist Arab and Islamic regimes while simultaneously working to criticize and isolate Israel, oppose the war on terrorism, and undercut the emphasis on democratization.
http://www.meforum.org/article/772
French Minister Nicolas Sarkozy Honored for fight against
Anti-Semitism: (snip)
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/news/statmnts/2003/sarkozy_antisemitism051203.asp
Paris, May 12, 2003
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy Monday condemned anti-Semitism as he received an international prize from a leading Jewish organization, saying that anti-Jewish behavior deserved "zero tolerance."
I don't no all languages either. But I stayed at the Holiday Inn Reykjavik.
But I do know art. And here is the face of one facet of it...
Got any pics of her sisters?