An orginal opinion by JFM, with an extract from Nicolas Sarkozy's speech: "France must be on the side of freedom and support the opressed. We tell to the nurses prisoners in Lybia for eight years, to Ingrid Bethancourt (JFM's note; prisoner of a marxist guerrilla movement), to the women in burkha, to the women martyrized everywhere in the world that France will be at their sides, that we will not abandon them." I don't know if he is sincere, I don't know how much latitude he will have, if he will really be able to retire the Villepins, Juppés and the other weasels but the speech is at complete break with De Gaulle. De Gaulles's policy (and Mitterrand and Chirac) was to have no moral consdideratiions, to play the East Europe dictorships aginst freedom, to support the worst dictatorships in Africa, to ally with the Nassers, Assads, Saddams, Ahmedinajads. To sell them weapons, nuclear technology, to support them at the UN and delay their undoing without any consideration for the tens of thousands who would die in the interim, or the dangers for humnkind itself. Taht policy who led to Franxce's complicity with Rwanda's genociders.
That is finished. France is now to be on the side of freedom. I hope he is sincere. I want to be proud of my president, I want to be proud of being French, I want to be proud of my country. |