...good post! It appears that the French leadership is rather talking about war before Iran has nuclear weapons, though. Here’s some related information.
UPDATE 1-France says advises French firms to avoid Iran
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL1646614620070916
World should brace for possible war over Iran: France
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897461/posts
French FM Kouchner: ‘We must prepare for war against Iran’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897458/posts
Le Ping
If only they had talked this way BEFORE the war in Iraq, that war might have been avoided completely.
Of course the venal money handlers in power before Sarkozy who were bought off by Saddam in the Oil-For-Food scandal prevented that.
... and here I thought that mice had eradicated the hawk population in France.
Faucons exist.
Ya learn sumthin’ every day.
“We have decided, while negotiations are under way ... to prepare for eventual sanctions outside the United Nations, which would be European sanctions,” he said.
I suppose that sanctions could work if they had real teeth in them such as destroying their ports and mining their harbors. I’m always ready to give peaceful measures a chance.
Funny how a few weeks of continuous riots will have an effect on foreign policy.
I guess this could be called a “Facing Reality Ping”.
The past two years when I have traveled to Europe for my summer vacation, I have avoided France. Maybe it is time to recognize the regime change in Paris.
John Mclaine
Mark