Sounds like she's going to be a foreign policy nightmare then, if only to avoid looking "weak".
Oh well, better than the alternative I guess.
Progressive on social issues but a "muscular" foreign policy. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Ok, true, some of them are on many, but not all, and not most. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
I don't see it that way. She has killed the "weak" meme from the start, without really fleshing any policies where it matters. The Iran stunt costs little to anybody in terms of actual diplomacy, but is very hard to criticize. And then she can support help to Palestinians and other sensible positions without being accused.
I see her as capturing the symbolism of toughness, without the actual policies, while Sarkozy has done the opposite and is now appearing as a quasi-fascist prick (which is deserved, of course). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
You're beginning to sound rather like the hopeful Democrats in the US: "she's just saying that to get elected, she'll be fine when she's in office". It seldom seems to wash out that way.
I hope you're right.
If she is a Democrats, she's at least a gutsy, successful one, so far. And her actual policies, while in power (in the government or in her region), are genuinely to the left. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
"I am against Iran pursuing civil nuclear energy ..."
Ok so far this is what she's said ... now let's add the following:
"... on its own, but am in favour of French companies being called to build and manage the reactors".
France has always had a pretty tough line on Iran anyway. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
