Well, that explains france's equipping Saddam with a nuclear weapons factory.
By crikey, is the French socialisto govt. perniscious to say the least. Equipping Arab countries with nuclear weapons let alone a fully worked up adavnced programme as the French propose would be to unleash hell on earth.
In what sense can diplomacy be conducted with a counrty which is hell bent on things which pose a threat to not simply the west but civilsation full stop. It is difficult to comprehend what is passed as analysis and policy formulation within the French govt: one day it is, we must stop international commerce, then it's how to bring McDonald's down, and then how to equip some very bad regimest of countries harbouring some of the nastiest outfits in the world with nucleear weapons and for what: to attack the only civilised country in the mid East, Israel.
And I believed the perfidy of the French govt. had bottomed.