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Over the Kohls on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:38:35 PM
How did the French ever elect this guy? He really seems to understand the Iranian threat. Quoted in a French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, he says "Everyone agrees on the fact that what the Iranians are doing has no civilian explanation," referring to Tehran's uranium enrichment work. "The only debate is about whether they will develop a military capacity in one or five years."
Somehow I always had the image of the French as Big Bird with his head underground. But Sarkozy understands that Iran is a true threat not only to Israel, which Iran would wipe off the face of the earth if it had the capability, but also a threat to the stability of the entire Middle East and thus to Europe as well. Will he be able to convince his European neighbors and others on the Security Council of the United Nations to join France and the United States in sanctions against Iran? That may be a tall order but Jacques Chirac would have been too busy throwing stones at the United States to even notice the Iran is a threat. Sarkozy is not your father’s French president.