Condi Doesn’t Understand France
Charles Johnson
Sat May 31, 2003 at 3:31 pm PDT • Views: 140
Condoleeza Rice just doesn’t understand the French infatuation with murderous dictators.
“I do not understand the continuing interest in Arafat,” US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice said in an interview with Le Monde Saturday, regarding Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin’s meeting last week with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. “The fact is that the Palestinian people need leadership that is committed to fighting terrorism. That has never been Arafat.”
Rice also spoke to France’s activities during the run-up to the war in Iraq. “There were times that it appeared that American power was seen to be more dangerous than, perhaps, Saddam Hussein. I’ll just put it very bluntly,” Rice said. “We simply didn’t understand it.”
Without identifying Chirac by name, she also said, “We couldn’t quite understand why the East Europeans were told to behave themselves, and that they shouldn’t somehow choose to support the United States, it would somehow undermine their European identity. We just couldn’t understand it.”
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