Posted on 09/17/2009 5:19:39 AM PDT by RobinMasters
It sounds like a joke, but it’s all too real: you know American foreign policy is unraveling when France is the stern international voice of sanity on Iran and Israel. This report (h/t Jeffrey Goldberg) explains:
French intelligence agencies are certain that Iran is hiding a nuclear weapons program, President Nicolas Sarkozy says.
“We cannot let Iran acquire nuclear” weapons because it would also be a threat to Israel, Sarkozy said during a meeting at the Elysee presidential palace with lawmakers from his conservative UMP party on Tuesday.
“It is a certainty to all of our secret services. Iran is working today on a nuclear (weapons) program,” he said.
The French leader also said he would not “shake the hand of someone who wants to wipe Israel off the map,” referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Unfortunately, the American president is not so clear. In fact, he is doing his best to be unclear—about what America will settle for and how far we will go with the charade of negotiations. Obama imagines that this buys time, but his procrastination is designed only to delay and delay the moment at which he will be obligated to take decisive action. (”Not yet—we’re still talking!”) And the Iranians happily accept the gift of time to continue developing their nuclear program, hoping to reach the point at which their nuclear program becomes a fait accompli.
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Ping.
Sarkozy leads.
I would like to think of France’s poor performance and early surrender in WWII to be an aberration. The French fought well in WWI, no surrender there. The French also fought well in many other wars, they just were’nt as good at fighting wars as the English, but nobody else was either.
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the American president is not so clear. In fact, he is doing his best to be unclear -- about what America will settle for and how far we will go with the charade of negotiations. Obama imagines that this buys time, but his procrastination is designed only to delay and delay the moment at which he will be obligated to take decisive action... And the Iranians happily accept the gift of time to continue developing their nuclear program, hoping to reach the point at which their nuclear program becomes a fait accompli.
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Hats off to RobinMasters for posting the article and for the Ping!
Obama is an empty suit, but a very dangerous one. He has always expressed pro-palestinian, anti-Israel, and anti-semitic sentiments Remember Reverend Wright, and now Jimmy Carter. BO has risiculed Bibi and minimized the danger to Israel, always siding against Israel and excusing the attacks on innocent Israeli women and children.
Sarko, OTH, has always been pro-Israel and supportive of Bibi in both word and deed.
Sarko has warned about the dangers of allying with Islamic radicals, and Iran as the major threat to the world .
Thanks for the Ping, Civ.
See my post below.
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