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FT.com / Europe - Sarkozy cool on relationship with Obama
Vive la France (Sarkozy)!!!:shock:
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When you agree more often with the French President than the American, you know the situation in America is bad.Mr Sarkozy has expressed his frustration at the White House’s perceived equivocation over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the priority that Mr Obama attaches to the long-term goal of a world free of nuclear weapons.
Mr Sarkozy’s frustration boiled over in September in a remarkably barbed speech to the UN General Assembly.
“We are right to talk about the future but before the future there is the present, and the present is two major nuclear crises,” Mr Sarkozy said, alluding to Iran and North Korea. “We are living in a real world, not a virtual world,” he added, in a clear dig at Mr Obama’s disarmament ambitions.
The French press often publishes Mr Sarkozy’s unflattering comments about Mr Obama’s lack of prior government experience, his alleged difficultyhttp://www.debatepolitics.com/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif in reaching decisions or his domestic electoral setbacks.
...current French frustration is aimed at Washington’s hesitancy or even weakness.
Which means... Obama is fundamentally anti-American.“He can play to a habitual anti-American standpoint but not from a position that is fundamentally anti-American.”
Vive la France (Sarkozy)!!!:shock:
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