April 22, 2007

MOST HONORED AMONG THIEVES AND MASS MURDERERS:

France Looks Ahead, and It Doesn’t Look Good (TONY JUDT, 4/22/07, NY Times)

By standing up to Mr. Bush and instructing his representatives at the United Nations to block a rush to an unprovoked war, the French president saved both the honor of the United Nations and the credibility of the international community.
We can argue about whether he was a good or bad leader, but in backing the Stalinist Saddam against the Anglo-American liberationists he was a quintessentially French one.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 22, 2007 7:59 AM
Comments

Another luscious bit of steaming parody from Tony Judt. Indeed, he rarely fails to disappoint.

Posted by: Barry Meislin at April 22, 2007 9:10 AM

Unprovoked war? I suppose all those violations of the 1991 armistice do not count as a provocation. We really can't expect these foreigners to live up to their agreements, can we?
/sarcasm off/

Posted by: Mikey [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 22, 2007 11:41 AM

That and the fact, that Chirac welcomed Khomeini to Paris, in 1978, as part of Saddam's role in
the Shatt-al Arab accords; the only figure that
Saddam wouldn't kill; in the 14 years that he
was exiled in Najaf; the source of the Iranian
and the Lebanese cataclyms. That he supervised
the training of the Hutu armies in Rwanda, approved the Tammuz 16 "Osirak" reactor, and has
to stay in parliament to avoid criminal sanctions.

Posted by: narciso at April 22, 2007 12:34 PM
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