[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the NYPost ping. Here's an exerpt:

President Jacques Chirac and Premier de Villepin are especially sore because they had believed that their opposition to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 would give France a heroic image in the Muslim community. That illusion has now been shattered — and the Chirac administration, already passing through a deepening political crisis, appears to be clueless about how to cope...

http://www.nypost.com/commentary/53917.htm

[nmh]

Thanks.

The French are always "clueless" because they are stupid.