[davisdoug]

Comma inside quotes is a typo. Anyone with "EYES WIDE OPEN" can figure that there most likely is an economic reason why France may be engaging other countries against US desires. This entire UN process is about IRAQ. France IMHO has made it an opportunity to engage the US in a high stakes poker game to hope that the EU will have meaning. EU economy is larger than US in total. EU military might if united could not fold my laundry. I just feel that a larger geo-political play is not best handled in this way. We can crush France in a whim. It is already under way with the purposeful devaluation of the greenback vs euro.

[1rudeboy]

It is already under way with the purposeful devaluation of the greenback vs euro.

You couldn't be farther from the truth. The Europeans are sweating bullets about the Euro's appreciation. Their economies are too weak to handle the loss of exports (to the U.S.).