Kneeling on Principle

Slate’s Chris Suellentrop thinks France will eventually join the coalition:

History is at the core of the tensions between France and America. Donald Rumsfeld’s comment last week about “old Europe” was telling: Americans see France as akin to Portugal, a once-great power now in decline. But as part of its own “special relationship” with the United States, France refuses to cede the world stage to the Americans. French identity is similar to American identity

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