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FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY WITH MUAMMAR KHADAFY, MICHAEL JACKSON’S NATURAL FATHER

The American establishment loves France’s new president, Nicholas Sarkozy, because, unlike his predecessors, he has been intelligent enough to address some complimentary remarks with regard to our nation.

That’s a beautiful thing, but unfortunately, as former president Jacques Chirac discovered to his eventual discomfiture, a warm embrace can lead to a picked pocket. (Chirac, incidentally, is on his way to being indicted in an insider trading scandal)

Sarkozy and his stunning blond wife, Cécilia, who professes to have no interest in politics, have pulled off a major coup in obtaining the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor from a Libyan jail where they were under sentence of death for supposedly infecting 400 children with AIDS at a hospital where they worked. In return, the Sarkozys promised to conclude agreements between France and Libya in areas that included defense, health, education and the construction of French nuclear power plants.

France is also intensely interested in Libyan petroleum. Its 39 billion barrels of proven reserves are thought to be the biggest on the African continent, surpassing Nigeria and Algeria. France’s Total Oil Company has already signed a joint venture with Russian Gazprom to exploit Algerian oil deposits, motivating the Russians to allot France a leading position in the extraction of important Siberian deposits.

The French nuclear utility, Areva, has concluded an agreement that is expected to focus on the building nuclear reactors for electricity purposes, including some that will power desalination of Mediterranean seawater for drinking and agricultural irrigation.

As all this frenzied activity is taking place, American diplomacy and industry are nowhere to be found in the equation. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has expressed interest in visiting Libya, but by the time she finally gets around to arriving, the banquet will be over and Sarkozy and Khadafy will be sitting at the table clinking their little glasses of “digestifs.”

For a guy who plays down intellectual activity in favor of direct action, Sarkozy’s behavior certainly has a strong element of meticulously calibrated calculation about it. He may not make speeches about a multi-polar world designed to enrage American policy makers, but his frenzied activity (he arrived in Tripoli and signed the development agreements the next day after the Bulgarian hostages were released. Not a month later – the next day!) shows that the new France is not letting any grass grow under its feet.

My friends in France, who voted for the Socialist candidate, Ségolène Royal, expressed disdain for Sarkozy as somebody who was unfashionably aggressive and ambitious, telling me “His fangs are so long that they’re cutting grooves in the floor.” I love that. Maybe what the world needs is a nasty little French wolverine of a guy with a voracious appetite, so that the whole planet doesn’t become one boring Anglo-Saxon plantation.

Sarkozy is going to make a great caricature for some zany French comedy movies, a compulsive, impulsive, rapid-fire kind of a maniac jogger like the great French comedian Louis de Funès used to portray. The actor who figures out how to satirize him is going to make a fortune of money.

In the meantime, America better figure out how to get with the program or Sarkozy and the other comedian, Russia’s Vladimir (Vlad The Impaler) Putin are going to eat up everything in sight.


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