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Sarko is apparently doing to the army what the right wing has been doing to the rest of the public service for years. He was extremely rough in his reaction to the accident (compare to the very mild way he reacts to police bavures). Also, this comes right after the publication of the plan to downsize the army massively - and subsequent criticism of the plan by military top brass. He is behaving more and more like Rumsfeld...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 06:41:27 PM EST
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Interesting angle, the Rumsfeld comparison.  You have me thinking of Sarkozy as the entire Bush Administration rolled into one miscreant.  The instability that would result surely can't last long.  

Any French care to comment on just what it would take to force Sarkozy to step down?  What kind of scandal would be simply TOO MUCH for the electorate?

by paving on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 07:27:19 PM EST
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I think the French electorate is apathetic enough not to be willing to take out the guillotine, and that's what it'd take for Sarkozy to step down.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 07:34:40 PM EST
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I think as an egoist that it will take some kind of personal humiliation to bring him down.  Things like him snapping at the "help" are helpful.  He seems like he could just flip out but it does not appear he has a history in that area...complete looni-ness I mean.  Unfortunately the first manifestations thereof rarely occur at his age.  Then again, absolute power and the achievement of all his aspirations might leave him  grasping at unsatisfied straws...
by paving on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 08:48:58 PM EST
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