“France’s actions have helped America. The willingness of the French to share the diplomatic, military and financial burdens won’t keep an unstable world from turning to our country for help, but it’s essential to have internationally invested partners…France is part of the solution, not the problem, which is a welcome development to an overextended America that can’t be, and doesn’t seek to be, the world’s policeman.”
Here’s proof that the famous hospitality of the American Midwest is not dead:
Just as news breaks that France’s President Nicholas Sarkozy’s domestic approval rating continues to decline (despite the “tough guy” pose he is taking, with all of his military interventions in North Africa, West Africa, etc.), the Minneapolis Star Tribune publishes an editorial today in his praise that includes the above paragraph.
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