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However, I was replying to this:

“We are talking about Sarkozy’s political survival.”

I don’t think the French are going to be very proud of having a Pres. who allowed a man to be publicly hacked to death. (should that occur)
So, it would be curtains for Sarkozy.

[ScaniaBoy]

I don’t think the French are going to be very proud of having a Pres. who allowed a man to be publicly hacked to death.

Well, wouldn't that be very French? ;-)

Seriously though, you may be correct. Actually the politically sensitive French Army has begun to back off a little:

French forces “helped” the pro-Ouattara fighters in the operation to capture Gbagbo, though they did not make the arrest, Laurent Teisseire, a spokesman for the French Defense Ministry, said by phone.

The article (from Bloombergs) is really worth reading. It is so wonderful of underhanded bias - and then it finishes with what at least for me was a total surprise:

Gbagbo’s capture ends the four-month stalemate and paves the way for Ouattara, a former prime minister under Houphouet- Boigny and deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, to move into the presidential palace in Abidjan.

OK, there are three deputy managing directors at a time I believe, but still, I feel it explains both a little bit of this and a little bit of that....