Posted on 09/29/2009 11:30:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is shameful when the White House is accused of betrayal by close allies in eastern and central Europe, but utterly humiliating when even the Elysee Palace thinks the United States has been transformed from a lion to a lamb in the face of mounting global threats. As The Wall Street Journal reported this morning, French president Nicolas Sarkozy was less than impressed with Barack Obama’s performance last week in the face of the Iranian nuclear crisis.
According to the paper, Washington urged Paris to delete key sections of Sarkozy’s UN speech that were critical of Iran and supposedly threatened to undermine Obama’s attempt to project himself as a global peacemaker:
“President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been “frustrated” for months about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde. So the Iran bombshell was pushed back a day to Pittsburgh, where the G-20 were meeting to discuss economic policy.”
“Le Monde’s diplomatic correspondent, Natalie Nougayrède, reports that a draft of Mr. Sarkozy’s speech to the Security Council Thursday included a section on Iran’s latest deception. Forced to scrap that bit, the French President let his frustration show with undiplomatic gusto in his formal remarks, laying into what he called the “dream” of disarmament.”
Sarkozy was so annoyed with Obama’s weak-kneed approach that he reportedly told Le Monde that “we live in the real world, not in a virtual one”(continued)
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Good grief! Even the French have more “equipment below the belt” than Zero!!
Chavez, Putin, and Castro also think that Obama is weak.
Yes. I bet he’s so under-equipped that the dr mistakenly wrote ‘female’ on his BC...
De Gaulle never seemed to have any issues with playing nicely with the US Administration. Sarko is no Charles De Gaulle (TG).
It does not get any lower than to have a Frenchman call you weak.
This is like having Michael Moore call you fat, or Harry Reid tell you you look like a cadaver.
THE ULTIMATE PUT-DOWN...
All of a sudden I am getting to like the French.
Wow, coming from a frog. Intense. Frogs are only good at blowing up Greenpeace ships.
Reminds me of the baby that was so ugly the doctor slapped both ends just to make sure.
I think we'll see various Dems rescueing Obama...Bubba for one...
And in light of this new knowledge, where does our Missile program go from here.
“Chavez, Putin, and Castro also think that Obama is weak.”
Who doesn’t? That’s the problem. Is the one country in the world who thinks now that they can turn to the US to support them if needed?
“The World” didn’t like Bush the cowboy. “The World” wanted the US to be less aggressive, and more like Western Europe. “The World” got what it wanted.
Now it seems they have a kind of buyer’s remorse.
Then slapped the mom, for good measure...
How quickly we went from making fun of the surrender monkeys to being the surrender monkeys.
He is a total failure in foreign policy. Shows a mix of weakness and liberal arrogance to the world, and thinks that projects strength. But to everybody except America-loathing American liberals, it is weakness.
President is really the wrong position of a person already suffering from a Messiah complex.
A shame that France hasn’t adopted the Eurofighter. Not a bad aircraft at all.
“THE ULTIMATE PUT-DOWN...”
My ego sure couldn’t take such an insult.... much less from the French.....LMAO.
Amazing, but not surprising.
The United States is not weak.....the President is. We need a war time President before it is to late.
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