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The Alliance
French undies in a bunch over US diplomatic chewing out
2002-02-17
  • Yesterday, not only was French Ambassador to the US Francois Bujon de l'Estang convoked unexpectedly to the State Department to discuss recent positions taken by Paris on US foreign policy, also - and this is where the French think that Washington went too far - the State Department dared make the convocation of Mr Bujon de l'Estang public - in the same way that it makes public its convocations of representatives of the smaller and less important countries, France's reaction to the matter being apparently at the centre of the controversy.

    Never in the recent memory of French diplomats has France been treated in such a fashion. Says one diplomat familiar with the incident: "Washington's gesture is unusual, unfriendly and unexpected."
    So was the nattering and sharpshooting of the euroweenies. Powell presumably said to shut up and get out of the way and the cheese people took the opportunity to huff. The Bush team has caught on to the essential question: "Why is it always incumbent on us to please them?"
    They can dish it out but they can't take it
    Posted by Perry de Havilland [samizdata.blogspot.com] 2/17/2002 11:24:48 PM
    The really disturbing thing, of course, being that France was treated like a "smaller and less important country", instead of as the center of universe and final arbiter of morals and culture that it likes to pretend that it is.

    Much more of this, and France may have to give up it delusions about itself.
    Posted by John "Akatsukami" Braue [www.win.net/ratsnest] 2/18/2002 3:27:08 PM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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