I'm speechless that a frenchman would realize this and then actually say it. I hope this brave young screenwriter still has a career in France after this.
Fred Gion, a Frenchman who has a wonderful essay appreciating America and its current president in today's Dallas Morning News, writes from Paris about Mr. Reagan's passing:
The next week will certainly be filled with sadness, which is not Reaganesque at all! Oddly, this week could be the least Reaganesque week of the last 24 years. Then everything will be quiet again and we will remember the fighting spirit, the moral clarity, the optimism and the jokes. "Reagan dead" is an oxymoron.
Posted at 07:15 PM
Not the time to betray....
... comes at least 18 months too late.
BTTT
Not the Time to Betray our American Brothers Again
" Is the country of les droits de l'homme (the rights of man) really enamored of freedom and democracy? I don't know anymore. "
" Why did President Jacques Chirac oppose America at the United Nations with such fierceness? Did he know there were no weapons of mass destruction, and no way of rebuilding Iraq."
" Not at all. The prewar consensus within the European intelligence community supported the WMD argument, and Iraq will eventually be rebuilt. All human beings are created equal, so democracy can and will flourish everywhere. "
" It's something else: a country-club mentality. European democracies feel like they belong to some sort of aristocracy, a small club of enlightened nations. They love the coziness of the status quo. They call Mr. Bush a reckless, brainless, mannerless cowboy. "
"Well, I like this cowboy very much. And I like the way he is trying to radically improve this world. "