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Saturday, March 22, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:26 AM:
Den Beste has a lengthy post on what's up with France, along with one correspondent's "yes buts". That correspondent is right about French nationalism and right that if he plays it right, no one in France will care how awful he is or has been. But... the French are also very sensible about how France is perceived. They like to imagine themselves the leaders of the civilized world, both through prestige and through influence. If they're shown to have nil, things will be rough for Chirac. If the French again find themselves being mocked, treated as fools, etc, Chirac will have a difficult balancing act to get people to defend him in the name of French dignity instead of dumping him to restore it. The one thing in his favor is that dumping him would require admitting to having been duped by him.In short, things are as bleak for France as Den Beste says, but probably not quite so bleak for Chirac himself.
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