So much for hopeychanging us in to better foreign relations:
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, initially dubbed Sarko the American for his pro-U.S. stance, is finding it much tougher to deal with Washington than he had anticipated and is recalibrating his policies accordingly.
Stung by perceived snubs from U.S. President Barack Obama and encouraged by the growing importance of the G20, Sarkozy is increasingly reaching out to non-aligned states in an effort to extend France’s international influence.
He has forged especially close ties with Brazil, is seeking alliances in central Asia and is intensifying his activities in the Middle East, using multi-billion dollar military and civilian nuclear trade deals as his calling card.
These initiatives are being played out against a discordant tone in Franco-American relations…
The only people Obama is nice to are our enemies – and they repay his truckling by spitting in our eye.
Ok, Democrats – we understand: you were told for years that if only Bush were nicer then things would get better. It was mindless, but you believed it; and now your guy has implemented what you were certain would work. Well, it hasn’t – I’d like to say “I hate to say ‘I told you so'”, but I do take great joy in saying it – so: I TOLD YOU SO!!!! And so did everyone else with any sense at all.
That out of the way, it is time for you to re-think your views. Perhaps it is better to try and work with allies and oppose enemies? I know – radical thought! But it has been tried before and has had some success (WWI, WWII, Cold War, Gulf War, Liberation of Iraq, eg) – I know that is a rather thin record to go on, but given the abject failure of Obama policy, how about giving it a try?
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