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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: JohnM who wrote (8464)9/18/2003 12:45:08 PM
From: carranza2   of 793800
 
Then yet another great failure of Bush diplomacy is be [sic] out politicked by the French.

How so?

It seems rather obvious that a substantial French motivation is to get the oil development contracts Saddam promisd Elf back in their pockets. They are not acting in their self-interest by annoying the one power that can put the contracts in place.

In your zeal to blame anything that Bush does, you also conveniently ignore (or purposefully evade) the remainder of Friedman's argument, namely, that the French policies will promote terrorism within France's borders.

How does this amount to being "out politicked", as you put it? Seems to me that the French are in the process of "out smarting" themselves.

C2@justlikeyou.com
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