The United States has been suckered into a war against Qaddafi for French interests. There are unverified reports that Qadaffi had fined a French oil company and rejected buying the Rafael fighter. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was very unpopular before the Islamist “Popular Uprising” in Libya. In fact he was running in 3rd place behind the Socialist and National Front candidates. Sarkozy decided that war was the way to boost his ratings. French media exaggerated and lied about Qaddafi’s crackdown. They tricked British and American media to go along with the lie. I would not be shocked if the French cut a deal with AL-Qaeda for this war. Now his ratings are back up and he has become a hero in France.
The French Socialist Party triumphed in local electionslast weekend. The Libyan rebels triumphed in Brega and Raz Lanuf. In France, attention turned to the presidential election of 2012. In Libya, the rebels set their sights on Tripoli. You may not think these things are connected. But, of course, they are.
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In this real-life Francophone sequel, there is no sex scandal. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is unpopular because of government corruption, because the French economy is weaker than it was supposed to be, because he and his now ex-foreign minister chose the wrong side in Tunisia, and because he’s erratic and unpredictable. Nor is the war a fake. The no-fly zone in Libya is real enough, as is a bombing campaign designed to aid the Libyan rebels.
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Sarkozy clearly hopes the Libyan adventure will make him popular, too. Nobody finds this surprising. At a conference in Brussels over the weekend, I watched a French participant boast of France’s leading role in the Libyan air campaign. A minute later, he heartily agreed that the war was a ploy to help Sarkozy get re-elected. The two emotions—pride in French leadership and cynicism about Sarkozy’s real motives—were not, it seems, mutually exclusive.
Read the rest: Did French President Nicolas Sarkozy push the Libyan intervention to boost his re-election bid?
So the United States is helping AL-Qaeda because of Nicolas Sarkozy’spolitical ambitions. This is disgusting and I’m sick and tired of us being used by leaches like France. It’s time we do actions in our own interests like hitting the Somali pirates, taking out Iran’s nukes and putting order in our Hemisphere. Instead we are spending treasure and military resources to help Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election. Obama is a clueless sucker.
