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They're too full of themselves, across the spectrum, to define it as pro vs. anti-US foreign policy of the moment. And I think that speaks well of them...unlike the UK, the French (again, across the spectrum) have enough self-regard not to couch their debates in terms of a Special Relationship, either with the US or with NATO. I don't think Sarkozy is inherently more sympathetic to US foreign policy--I think he just sees that we are getting further away from the decision that caused the rupture (2002/2003) and he doesn't want to keep privileging that issue.
-5.38/-3.74 I've suffered for my country. Now it's your turn! --John McCain with apologies to Monty Python's "Protest Song"
by Rich in PA on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 06:48:29 AM PDT
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is older and deeper than that. DeGaulle's foreign policy doctrine (which French elites have trouble getting away from) was largely founded on keeping distance with the US. What most of them forget was that the idea was to keep EQUAL distance from the USSR and the US and therefore it does not make sense to follow that same line once one of them has disappeared. But the force of habit and distrust make it easy for them to just keep keeping their distance with our country
by doriangz on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 06:53:33 AM PDT
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