Posted on 11/16/2004 1:11:56 PM PST by SmithL
PARIS -- In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice -- Colin Powell's expected replacement as U.S. secretary of state -- without recalling the low points in trans-Atlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq.
After all, it was Rice who raised eyebrows last year with her Machiavellian suggestions for how Washington should treat European opponents of the U.S.-led invasion.
"Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia," Rice was widely quoted as telling associates in the spring of 2003.
Trans-Atlantic ties have since improved to some extent. But Rice's reputation still precedes her.
"Condie Rice is a woman with character, that's the least we can say," French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Tuesday of President Bush's trusted national security adviser.
But Barnier underlined French hopes of rebuilding ties with the United States no matter who holds the post of chief diplomat. "If she is named ... we will continue to have the same relations," Barnier told Europe-1 radio. "With the United States, the moment has come, looking ahead of us, to rebuild, to renew this trans-Atlantic relationship."
Many in Europe, Asia and the Middle East believed Rice will add a more conservative, hawkish bent to U.S. diplomacy after Powell, seen by many as a moderating voice in a Cabinet of hawks.
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Me too!!!
we should totally stop restraining israel and start using them to fight our battles for us. we should have outsourced fallujah to israel.
I do find it amusing that the US military uses a French word for "Shithouse." (Madam Latrine, anyone?)
read later bump
And when the government of Saudi Arabia tried to make a fool out of our Sec State and stabbed us in the back in order to maintain the flow of its crooked money it was getting from Saddam. LMAO.
Suggest you either go back to DU, or observe a few weeks before you make a statement like that.
France is on the outside looking in. And they know it.
The more I hear about this brilliant lady, the more I like her.
As a vet I can say she is one Sec State that will inspire confidence in the troops.
Cool
Can I be the Sec. of Energy??
Day 1: All solar, wind, geothermal, and karma energy funding slashed to zero.
Day 2: Full bore nuclear energy with Plutonium recycling.
Of course he wasn't -- he was making a flip remark for a chuckle. But the troll wants to miscontrue that remark as being antisemetic, and as supporting the extermination of millions of people. That way, he can retain his delusion that everyone here is a knuckle-dragging, jackboot wearing fascist.
sure, but how can you nuke France without killing the jews that live over here?
Maybe that is because Dr. Rice is intelligent enough to know the difference between the actions of a few individuals acting independently of their nation's government and the official acts of heads of state.
Of course that concept is a bit too hard for most liberals to grasp.
And me.
Their economy is tanking. And it was done without firing a shot.
Condi can't get much clearer than that.
YEP!
yeah american must boycott all french products, except of course the million doses of flue vaccine made by Aventis Pasteur.
What has france done recently?
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