Thomas Friedman's ravings: "France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming our enemy.
If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war (making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war), and if you look at how France behaved during the war (when its foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, refused to answer the question of whether he wanted Saddam or America to win in Iraq), and if you watch how France is behaving today ... then there is only one conclusion one can draw: France wants America to fail in Iraq."

From my observations, France represents much more of the world's opinion than the US with regard to Iraq. And far from wanting the US to fail, France tried to prevent us from a crazy invasion. If we had listened to them, we might have still invaded, but with a UN mandate. We would now have allies to share the costs and troops from major allies.

As they said in vietnam, we have found the enemy. It's our administration that is responsible for the disaster in Iraq. Not France.
- posted by geoff @ #