He tells the truth on an open mic. Obama tells it as well: "I have to deal with him all the time." Tonight's November 22's foreign policy debate for the GOP looks likely to be centered on how strongly the candidates can back a lying, foreign prime minister in a neo-fascist coalition over their own president, desperately trying to prevent Israel from unilaterally launching World War III. In a world of 7 billion people, the GOP's foreign policy reaches its most emotionally intense in fusing US policy with a country of 7 million people thousands of miles away, with no serious strategic importance to the US, and, in some ways, a strategic liability.
But Sarkozy is a problem for the GOP. He cannot be described as an anti-Semite, even by the usual suspects. He is for an aggressive interventionist foreign policy. He is the most pro-American French president in memory. But he can see who Netanyahu is; and how dangerous his fundamentalist-dominated government can be to world peace. Why cannot the American right?
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