Putting your eggs in the basket of a politician is often … to say the least … a risky procedure, but the news that Nicolas Sarkozy … only a couple of weeks after his election … has lined up with the US against the (redundancy alert) UN hack Mohammed ElBaradei by continuing to oppose Iran’s enriching uranium is good news indeed. (BTW, has anyone checked ElBaradei’s bank account lately … hello, Claudia!)… From the JPost:
French President Nicholas Sarkozy called Wednesday for sanctions on Iran to be tightened if the country does not adhere to the West’s demands to cease its nuclear agenda.
If Iran attains nuclear weapons, Sarkozy warned, a road to an arms race will be paved that could endanger Israel and southeast Europe, he said during an interview with a German magazine.
Sarkozy announced that France will join the official US-led struggle against head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, who recommended that Iran be allowed to enrich uranium in some of its nuclear plants.
On Tuesday, American officials urged allies to back a formal protest against ElBaradei, saying his comments could hurt UN Security Council efforts to pressure Teheran over its enrichment program.
“We were indeed surprised by several comments from Mr. ElBaradei over the weekend,” said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei. “We share the gist of concerns expressed by our American partners – along with several other partners, for that matter.”
Looks like Bush … and America … have a New Best Friend. What pseudo-liberal idiot will be the first to call him “Bush’s new poodle.” (And another btw, what’s with the “poodle” thing anyway. Watching the dog walkers in my neighborhood, I don’t see a lot of poodles acting like, er, poodles.)
UPDAT: And speaking of Sarkozy (and hacks), wouldn’t it be ironic if this ignorant doofus became President of the United States while Sarkozy was th President of France. It would almost be like a political sex change operation. The “War on Terror” is a bumper sticker? Talk about projection. No, amigo, you are a bumper sticker.
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1. Steven:I think you meant to say “redundancy alert.”
May 24, 2007 - 6:41 am 2. E-ho:Roger — When I click on “Ignorant Doofus” it goes to e-mail.
May 24, 2007 - 7:12 am 3. Roger:All fixed. [Next time don't post while IMing Spain, paying bills and getting your daughter to school all at the same time.-ed.]
May 24, 2007 - 7:33 am 4. Godzilla:Roger, it is still showin at a mailto: link in my browser, and ends up opening my email program. From “View Source”:
href=”mailto:http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/05/ahoy_matey.php”>ignorant doofus
May 24, 2007 - 8:11 am 5. Buddy Larsen:Daer Sir,
We of the Edwrads Campain wish to HIGHLY objekt to you opening a commant on regrads to our cantidate with the word “UPDAT”. Besids, its miss spelled, it shuold be “UP THAT”.
May 24, 2007 - 8:19 am 6. Skookumchuk:The real question for Sarko is whether he will prevail or just get sabotaged by the bureaucracy. Sound familiar?
May 24, 2007 - 8:41 am 7. Buddy Larsen:skook’s right –hope (even pray) for the best, but expect the worst. Still, he sure used the bully pulpit to great effect on that ElBaradei agent.
May 24, 2007 - 9:55 am 8. Buddy Larsen:…but not to worry, today we’re back to “3 to 8 years”.
May 24, 2007 - 10:03 am 9. Buddy Larsen:This is big –one thing about a bureaucracy: once it finally does get onto something, it sticks like white phosphorous.
May 24, 2007 - 10:18 am 10. Buddy Larsen:…if the new program needs a catchy handle, how ’bout “mufticulturalism”?
May 24, 2007 - 10:26 am 11. Michael J. Totten:It’s very telling how the American right is suddenly pro-France and the American left…not so much. It just goes to show that it was never about France per se, but rather Bush and Chirac all along.
If France and Germany end up more hawkish two years from now than the United States and Great Britain (hey, it could happen, Blair is out and Bush will be too) it will be supremely ironic indeed.
May 24, 2007 - 11:04 am 12. tim maguire:Michael:
“Pro France” seems a bit strong. Pro sensible foreign policy and support for Western Civilization is more like it. At the moment, that means pro-Sarkozy and slightly hopeful for France.
The scenario of your second patragraph–if it comes to pass–would be intersting indeed. Will the lefties of France and Germany create websites apologizing to us?
May 24, 2007 - 11:38 am 13. Buddy Larsen:I think a lot of Americans want to love France. You know, the sensibility, the flair, the love of the senses. Slightly alien, a little naughty, all that stuff we used to love to love, before the politics turned so dire.
May 24, 2007 - 11:54 am 14. Charlie (Colorado):Godzilla (gojira, des, ne? Honto da!) make sure you’ve got a new copy, not a cached copy. In mozilla or firefox you can do that my clicking “refresh” while holding the shift button.
May 24, 2007 - 12:10 pm 15. Roger:An ex-francophile wanting to be francophile again, I’m with Buddy and Michael on this. Michael’s scenario doesn’t seem that far-fetched in the current zeitgeist, yet somehow I think America will stand up when the time comes.
May 24, 2007 - 12:12 pm 16. Lem:The bad news is… while Madrid and London were hit, Chirac did manage (somehow) to spare Paris.
If Sarkozy becomes our new Blair, an attack on France may be just a matter of time.
I hate to say this but an attack may help put some fire in our belly, the fire needed to stare down Iran.
May 24, 2007 - 12:32 pm 17. hca:Let me be the first to say, if so-and-so gets elected, I’m moving to France!
May 24, 2007 - 12:59 pm 18. Steven Mitchell:It could also be that with Pelosi and company mouthing off, that the Europeans are starting to realize what Blair and a few others were saying all along: The free lunch on defense is not inexhaustible. If the Europeans felt safe being childish because Bush was strong, what does it do to them when Bush is weakened?
May 24, 2007 - 1:01 pm 19. Buddy Larsen:What SM says–plus it took awhile to get the returns in, on all that wealth diverted from defense to welfare. Now the returns are coming in, and they appear to be not so good (dependence, entitlement, ignorance, narcissism). Not to say that our own culture is such fine shape, either –but we have been providing that shield behind which the continent could take that shot at Utopia. Hopefully we can in time look at it as having been a sort of tuition fee.
May 24, 2007 - 1:19 pm 20. Lem:If the afore mentioned presidential candidate is right, that the war on terror is nothing but a bumper sticker, then it means it has taken him over 5 years to make this discovery.
At that rate Edwards would definitely not “grow on the job”.
May 24, 2007 - 2:23 pm 21. Buddy Larsen:Right –one wonders how on earth it could not strike his campaign people how painfully obvious the “pander of the week” is getting to be.
May 24, 2007 - 7:47 pm 22. Buddy Larsen:It’s like, there’s the campaign, and it’s on this desert island, see, and all around there’s this sea of voters, and they just cook up stuff and throw it in the sea, day by day. The more the better, it’s just volume that counts. Contradictions? Wazzat?
May 24, 2007 - 7:52 pm 23. Steven Mitchell:“It’s like, there’s the campaign, and it’s on this desert island, see, and all around there’s this sea of voters, and they just cook up stuff and throw it in the sea, day by day. The more the better, it’s just volume that counts. Contradictions? Wazzat?”
With a complicit media, this tactic often works for them. If a politican is unprincipled, venal and lazy, and has this kind of cover, why would he ever do anything else? In this kind of environment, it’s amazing that some of the Dems are as good as they are. (The “fear of the gotcha” on the GOP side is a different effect altogether, but an equally pernicious influence on behavior.)
May 25, 2007 - 9:11 am 24. rosignol:Will the lefties of France and Germany create websites apologizing to us?
Never.
May 31, 2007 - 2:33 am