Will the Real Sarkozy Please Stand Up

contentions ^ | 7.26.2007 | Davi Bernstein

[Contentions]

In his victory speech on election night this past May, Nicolas Sarkozy declared that under his reign, “the pride and the duty of France” will be on the side of “all those who are persecuted by tyranny and dictatorship.” Sarkozy appealed to “all those in the world who believe in the values of tolerance and democracy” to join him. Specifically, Sarkozy pledged, “France will be on the side of the locked-up nurses in Libya.” Whereas his predecessor Jacques Chirac acted out of delusions of grandeur, Sarkozy’s goal is to restore identity to a nation imbued with failure and doubt.

This week Sarkozy produced a “success,” bringing home the nurses. But aiding the persecuted should not entail paying off their persecutors. Sarkozy’s pledge became farce when Madame Sarkozy, followed by le président de la République himself, sat in Colonel Qaddafi’s tent, after which the Madame said that she and the Libyan dictator had built “a real relationship of trust.” (Compare this to Natan Sharansky’s defiant crossing of the Glienicke Bridge into West Berlin.)

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Right here in FR, only last week, I warned one poster about getting too excited about the new frenchman in charge over there. NOW do you see? They are ALL tricky, to say the least. Never depend upon them for anything. Just grab the mustard and run.