Pardon my schadenfreude while another weasel goes on trial*
This is just too delicious to ignore. Recall the conventional wisdom of the better part of the last decade about then-President George W. Bush’s supposedly go-it-alone foreign policy and how that man antagonized our allies. This silly notion was all based on the failure of two of our allies, France and Germany, to support that good man’s commitment to enforcing numerous United Nations resolutions which Iraq had violated.
Well, when Jacques Chirac, the man who served as President of France for the better part of W’s tenure in the White House stepped down in 2007, our relations with the Gallic nation quickly improved. The problem was not the American President, but the French one.
Now, that perfidious Parisian has been ordered to stand trial for corruption. Pardon my schadenfreude.
*NB, I flipped the order of the clauses in the title as, upon further reflection, I realized this version just plain sounded better.
FROM THE COMMENTS: Sean A offers an important reminder:
And just to be clear, during the Bush Presidency, when liberals were constantly bemoaning America’s “standing in the world community,” and shrieking about “the rest of the world laughing at us,” Chirac is one of the paragons of integrity whose approval they judged as indispensable.
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From the underlying AP article:
I seem to remember that Pasqua was identified, around 2004 or 2005, as being on Saddam Hussein’s payroll. Too bad they didn’t get him for that.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 30, 2009 @ 5:33 pm - October 30, 2009
And just to be clear, during the Bush Presidency, when liberals were constantly bemoaning America’s “standing in the world community,” and shrieking about “the rest of the world laughing at us,” Chirac is one of the paragons of integrity whose approval they judged as indispensable.
Comment by Sean A — October 30, 2009 @ 7:00 pm - October 30, 2009
Very cool! Glad to hear it.
Comment by American Elephant — October 30, 2009 @ 7:17 pm - October 30, 2009
Does this mean we are no longer required by the WaPo and NYT to swoon every time Dominique de Villepin picks his nose?
Comment by heliotrope — October 30, 2009 @ 7:43 pm - October 30, 2009
It was a good thing when Sarkozy took over as President of France.
You cannot imagine how happy I am that Chirac is to face trial for corruption. It could not happen to a better person…/sarc off
Comment by straightAussie — October 31, 2009 @ 4:08 am - October 31, 2009