March 10, 2003

BE LIKE JACQUES:

Chirac To Go To New York (Metropole Paris, 10. March 2003)
"Nobody can predict in advance the results of a war. They are seldom positive." So said President Jacques Chirac on TV this evening, when being questioned by journalists from the two main national TV networks here.

Speaking of imputing your own experience onto a situation--is he aware that it will be the US and Britain fighting this war, and not France, so the results are unlikely to be surrender and collaboration? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 10, 2003 10:24 PM
Comments

Chirac's absolutely right.



This war will be hell for France.



And Germany.



And Russia (not that anyone expects much of Russia, though).

Posted by: Barry Meislin at March 11, 2003 1:52 AM

Hemingway once said no general could be certain of victory unless he was fighting he Romanians. But the odds are way in his favor if he is fighting the French.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at March 11, 2003 2:11 PM
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