Comments on: Sarkozy on “Charlie Rose” Wednesday night http://blog.gmfus.org/2007/01/31/sarkozy-on-charlie-rose-wednesday-night/ Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amaya Bloch-LainĂ© http://blog.gmfus.org/2007/01/31/sarkozy-on-charlie-rose-wednesday-night/#comment-18 Amaya Bloch-LainĂ© Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:34:15 +0000 http://blog.gmfus.org/2007/01/31/sarkozy-on-charlie-rose-wednesday-night/#comment-18 About Roger Cohen's column in the NYT and IHT : the pamphlet issued by the French Socialist Party should be looked primarly at as a weapon against Nicolas Sarkozy. Viewed in such a light, it does not deserve any special attention or treatment since it is a classical campaigning tool. Now, beyond this very political dimension, the pamphlet also reveals, and this is both more interesting and worrying, the way a large section of French socialists look at the US and transatlantic relations. The level of ignorance, ideology and aggressivity displayed in this document not only about Bush but about the so-called American system and way of life is just amazing. No one knows actually who wrote the chapter on Sarkozy and the US since it has been written under a pseudo (an other very courageous way of doing things), but it absolutely fits the doctrine of anti-globalisation/anti-US you find in the French extreme left and also within the Socialist party. Now, the official socialist candidate never spellled such an anti-US policy out, and I bet she won't. But she will have to make her own position clear at some point About Roger Cohen’s column in the NYT and IHT : the pamphlet issued by the French Socialist Party should be looked primarly at as a weapon against Nicolas Sarkozy. Viewed in such a light, it does not deserve any special attention or treatment since it is a classical campaigning tool. Now, beyond this very political dimension, the pamphlet also reveals, and this is both more interesting and worrying, the way a large section of French socialists look at the US and transatlantic relations. The level of ignorance, ideology and aggressivity displayed in this document not only about Bush but about the so-called American system and way of life is just amazing. No one knows actually who wrote the chapter on Sarkozy and the US since it has been written under a pseudo (an other very courageous way of doing things), but it absolutely fits the doctrine of anti-globalisation/anti-US you find in the French extreme left and also within the Socialist party.

Now, the official socialist candidate never spellled such an anti-US policy out, and I bet she won’t. But she will have to make her own position clear at some point

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