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**tgs** · 04-06-2006, 07:00 AM

Yet according to Judith Klinghoffer's reading of the BBC, France is increasingly isolating itself.

http://hnn.us/blogs/3.html

LE MONDE - FRANCE ISOLATED ON IRAQ

As I have previously noted, US is winning ugly strategically - This item is from the BBC press review which labels it "France's dilemma:"

Under the headline "Splendid isolation", France's Le Monde says the Iraq issue is confronting President Jacques Chirac with "a highly difficult diplomatic equation".

The president, it says, has to work out a way of "maintaining his opposition to the war without appearing to be shamefully nostalgic for Saddam Hussein".

His dilemma is "how not to oppose the reconstruction of a 'sovereign' Iraq without reneging on his original position".

As a result, at the Nato summit in Istanbul "France found itself isolated in its refusal to accede to America's requests and in its blunt criticism of George W. Bush's public pronouncements."

04-06-2006, 07:00 AM	#4
tgs Join Date Mar 2007 Age 48 Posts 5,125 Senior Member	Yet according to Judith Klinghoffer's reading of the BBC, France is increasingly isolating itself. http://hnn.us/blogs/3.html LE MONDE - FRANCE ISOLATED ON IRAQ As I have previously noted, US is winning ugly strategically - This item is from the BBC press review which labels it "France's dilemma:" Under the headline "Splendid isolation", France's Le Monde says the Iraq issue is confronting President Jacques Chirac with "a highly difficult diplomatic equation". The president, it says, has to work out a way of "maintaining his opposition to the war without appearing to be shamefully nostalgic for Saddam Hussein". His dilemma is "how not to oppose the reconstruction of a 'sovereign' Iraq without reneging on his original position". As a result, at the Nato summit in Istanbul "France found itself isolated in its refusal to accede to America's requests and in its blunt criticism of George W. Bush's public pronouncements."
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