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En Weltpolitik-Blog el 2007.05.01

Differences between presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are strategic rather than substantive in foreign affairs. Neither is beholden to the anti-American Gaullist or Socialist legacies. In the last decades, the French have made a political sport of bashing various American presidents. Peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was called incompetent and Ronald Reagan was considered a second-rate Hollywood actor. But after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush, became the most despised US...