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How is this new? France's foreign policy is to provide an alternative to the USA. As a waylayer of US policies, I exist. That's how it worked under de Gaulle or Mitterand, and it's the same "friends". what was news was the hiatus for 15 years when (depending on how you see it) France capitulated to the US / took a more cooperative approach to US policy goals.

:-)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Feb 21st, 2006 at 03:10:08 AM EST
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Actually, go read that editorial in Le Monde today which states that it's been a long while since France and the USA had been so closely aligned on so many topics, and that diplomacy between the two is doing well, and that these close trips to India were a demonstration of that, with no talk whatsoever from Chirac about a "multipolar" world (the kind that annoys the Americans), and fairly similar stances on a number of issues.

Of course, you still have the big commercial rivalries in airplanes and nuclear energy, but that trip is not about being "alternative to America" (not this time, anyway)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Feb 21st, 2006 at 03:26:47 AM EST
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