The French president has also been subject to criticism from Right and Left, with alarm bells ringing over stories that he handed the Libyan buffoon the keys to a nuclear kingdom.
I seriously doubt the French president traded said keys for 5 nurses and a doctor.
How do reach this conclusion? The French have done worse deals in the past – many, many times.
He is too smart for such small-minded, short-sighted bargains.
Huh? I’ve seen no proof of this. And there have been smarter French presidents who have made worse bargains. Paying anything for hostages is wrong and leads to nothing but trouble. For some reason, you seem to think that paying ransom is a “smart” move.
But, we see more of the particulars of Sarkozy’s incredible intelligence covered at CNN:
Sarkozy told reporters in Libya that to consider the Arab world “is not sensible enough to use civilian nuclear power” would, in the long run, risk a “war of civilizations.”
Risk? Is this the guy you think is so smart? (Assuming that CNN accurately described his statement)
Okay … maybe he hasn’t seen any news in the last 30 years or so. I can give him a pass on that. It’s hard to keep up with things, especially if French politics is ones profession.
But, Sarkozy is unable to keep his “intelligence” to himself. It goes further:
“Nuclear power is the energy of the future,” he said. “If we don’t give the energy of the future to the countries of the southern Mediterranean, how will they develop themselves? And if they don’t develop, how will we fight terrorism and fanaticism?”
Have they developed themselves even to a normal level today? No. And they’ve had the “energy of the future” for the last century. They’ve been paid TRILLIONS for it. And how have they developed as societies? AWFULLY! They are still among the most backward people on Earth – the Arab literacy rate is appallingly low.
So, given this recent history, nukes are the answer for them. That’s why they didn’t grow and civilize, because they didn’t have NUKES! Just lots and lots of oil, and we all know that that couldn’t have been expected to propel them into the modern world.
But, with all the old “energy of the future” and TRILLIONS of dollars in free money thrown at the Arabs, they have still become terrorists and fanatics … BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T HAVE NUKES!!
Sarkozy removes all doubt about his motives with one clean line, “I am trying to reassure a part of the Arab world”. I guess you missed that one, while wondering what he was doing with Quadaffi. Well, let me translate it for you – The French are preparing their terms of surrender … again.
Yeah, Sarkozy is brilliant. really …
