Monday, May 14, 2007

Much Better…

After toying with the (atrocious) idea of Hubert Védrine in the foreign minister's seat (hopefully only as a political ploy to show an opening to the left), Sarkozy now seems to be considering Bernard Kouchner at the Quai d'Orsay…

As I mention in my book, La Bannière Étalée, the former Doctors Without Borders founder has consistently been the most popular member of the Socialist Party in polls throughout the country. Why, then, did the party not even consider choosing Kouchner as a candidate in the presidential election (in which he would in all probability have given Nicolas Sarkozy a run for his money)?


Because Kouchner — who has direct knowledge of "Saddam Hussein's bombs and mass graves since 1974" — supported the effort to topple Iraq's dictator. For the effrontery of doing something as despicable as siding with George W Bush, Kouchner — who knows slightly more about "chaos", "tragedies", and "massacres" than the self-proclaimed (stay-at-home) experts in human rights — was sidelined and marginalized.

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