De Villepin's got a short fuse and a reputation
as a spin-doctor.
"De Villepin's aristocratic upbringing,
international exposure and privileged education
have produced the miracle diplomat
capable of pissing anyone off."
Incorrigible French diplomatic corps crows
that they were right about the War on Terror
all along. Others ruefully agree.
The Delicious Joys of Hindsight
But if the US is quagmired in anarchic
disintegration in the Muslim world, France
isn't doing much better in trying to save the
Ivory Coast from a senseless civil war. A world
full of diplomats fiddles, Rome smolders.
