Obama, Edith Piaf, and the French Foreign Legion

Published August 18, 2010 8:46pm ET



News item: “COLUMBUS, Ohio– Despite criticism from Republicans and others, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he has ‘no regrets’ over the comments he made about the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.”

In alluding to “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“No, I regret nothing”), the French song famously performed by the great Édith Piaf, is President Obama subtly indicating that the battle for the mosque is over?

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