[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Sarkozy

[Morton K. Brussel]

Perhaps you will be interested in what a young French friend of mine  
wrote me recently concerning Sarko… ("deads" =  "deeds".)   --mkb

…This makes me come to France and the French government we have now.  
I'm not worried about Sarkozy and his crew. I'm sure they will fail  
in what they are attempting, they are too much in a hurry, too fast,  
too dogmatic and ideology-driven and with too bad a method: They  
decide first and then ask others their opinions. This can't work. The  
"only" problem I see is that before failing, these people will have  
hurt a lot of others in France. Furthermore, they are making our  
European partners, especially the Germans, angry at our country. This  
is not good.

What worries me more, as you underline it, is the way things are  
reported in the news. I have taken from reading LMD to analyze the  
news we are told on the radio (I don't watch TV) or what we can read  
in the newspapers and magazines and I see that the analysis of the  
deads and speeches of these so-called important persons is very close  
to non-existence, very poor. I mean for example, as you know, our  
president is running behind his crazy time schedule and dealing in  
the same day with as important subjects as the pensions, the war in  
Near-East and some problems in the banlieues (=suburbs) in France,  
while, in the meantime, attending a burrial in Brittany or Alsace. I  
mean, we are told about the whole agenda of this guy in the news but  
who could possibly think seriously that this guy, who's not stupid  
anyhow, can deal with these problems seriously ? There is no such  
comments in the news. I mean, for example, the pensions of the  
retired persons is a heavy load on the budget of the society and,  
personaly, I think it's normal that we pay for the olders, this  
participates in the meaning of being together in the society. But,  
who can seriously consider that these people, and the president among  
them, spend enough time to try to solve temporarilly this problem ?  
Besides the journalists we are telling us the news, nobody, I think.

The very worry I have those days comes from an article I read in  
Nature which was explaining that with respect to the recent  
measurements of the ice in the poles, the ice there melts even faster  
than in the worst case scenario considered by this international  
group of experts on environment who was created in 2005 to give some  
advices and considerations to the United-Nations and the Kyoto  
protocole signatories (I think, i'm not sure). This may mean in  
particular that there won't be ice left in summer in the north pole.  
Such an event is awfully frightening, I think, as a symbol of our  
behaviour towards the environment. The thing is that, when I look at  
what the French citizens around me are doing for the global warming,  
I don't see any reason why we should not go to the total environment  
crisis. Everybody is so generous with the global warming !

The wealth the rich countries are trying to protect will be of no use  
besides giving to their citizens the right to die the last when time  
will come, the poorer will be the first to disappear if nothing  
changes dramatically.

(J-E Ducret)


On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:00 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> In large part because the wretchedly rightist Socialists (who were  
> just as bad in Mitterand's time) threw away a winning hand.  The  
> French quite correctly rejected the neoliberal EU constitution when  
> the entire political establishment (including the Socialists) urged  
> its passage. Had the Socialists embraced that expression of the  
> popular will, they would have done much better against Sarko --  
> Napoleonic at least in stature -- even with a parody Clinton couple  
> at their head. --CGE
>
> Matt Reichel wrote:
>> I still don't quite understand how this man became president,  
>> despite having been here to see it all unfold.
>> How can a country that sent a Socialist/Communist regime to the  
>> elysee when the US and UK were descending into the pits of  
>> Reaganism/Thatcherism suddenly be taking this drastic course!?
>> More confusing still yet is the fact that this occurred just on  
>> the heels of extraordinary grassroots action to tackle the CPE and  
>> the EU Constitution.
>> Still yet, my hope is that eventually political culture will get  
>> in the way of Sarko's plans. While there are some in France that  
>> look with awe at the sparkly, capitalist United States, most of  
>> those types have never actually been there. They are culturally  
>> too thoughtful, worldly and critical to accept the kind of market  
>> tyranny that exists in the U.S. right now . . .
>> -
>> mer
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