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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:51 AM:
French news round-up:The headlines run from the cautious to the triumphal. Says Le Monde, "The inspectors want more time," noting that Blix gave a harsh assessment of Iraqi cooperation but asked for more time anyway. Le Figaro, meanwhile, says "Blix forces Bush to wait." Though the headline implies a struggle between the cowboy and the civilized world, the story starts with US efforts to get Iraq to behave, rather than with the personality politics that drive so much of this story at least as the media tells it.
Libé tells us that "The war in Iraq [has been] postponed a few weeks." But the US is about at the end of its patience, says Libé, which means war is coming.
One question, still, is how France hopes to accrue power from its UN position by exercising that power to... nullify the force of UN positions. Another: Does it think it is protecting its interests in Iraq by risking letting a US/UK led coalition (with Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and others supporting us) set the terms for Iraqi surrender?
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