French Deny Reality Again

This is just lovely. France's ambassador to the UN has declared that "there is no anti-Americanism in France." It sounds to me like de Villepin needs to be called back to Paris a little more often.

He also proves that, despite the French's supposed excellence in diplomacy, the French don't understand us. He states that if regime change were the goal "there would be so many countries included." I mentioned it in an earlier post: diplomacy=making distinctions. For all the complaints of the US being simplistic, this certainly looks like the French being extremely simplistic. The distinctions required by diplomacy seem to escape them.

And the last paragraph of the article is amazing. de Villepan stresses the longtime ties between the US and France by mentioning that Chirac was the first head of state to visit after 9/11. See? Out longterm ties go all the way back to the last big photo-op. Weasels.