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Laurent Fabius, France's Foreign Minister
- Keywords:
- foreign policy
- France
- Middle East
- Assad
- crisis
- Syria
- United Nations
- Europe
- World
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tabs 09/30/2012 11:44 AM Report
The most important thing that Mr Fabius said was, "That if someone has a SOLUTION everybody should discuss it." This is typical of the European mindset, "Let us keep talking about it in the hopes that the problem with either go away or we forget what the problem is." In other words this is a great course of action if one wants to get NOTHING done.
REMant 09/27/2012 11:37 AM Report
The "higher" the govt, the more a special sort of people gravitate to it in search of power, or to escape what they deem oppression. Madison saw this to his horror in the US, and we've seen it in Europe, and now with the UN. Not to impugn their motives, but countries like Turkey would like to keep Syrians, Alawites and Kurds, etc, on the other side of their borders. Sanctioning Iran is of about the same order as walking out on Ahmadinejad's speech: more childish than he is. But, yes, the French had a long, if not very distinguished career in Syria and Lebanon, during which they divided the area up into enclaves, and is currently re-interesting itself in Sahelian African resources. Fabius appears as deficient in macroeconomics as Monti, and in ethics as Charlie. Freedom doesn't just invoke responsibility; it requires as well the ability to be responsible. To combine them, we might say, bringing in Mr Monti, too, that virtue provides both demand and supply. But they are not Protestants. I don't know about Rose.