President Bush has (once again) raised the hackles of France’s President Chirac. This time Chirac took offense at Bush’s urging of the EU induct Turkey. From “CNN’s Bush rebugg to Chirac over Turkey”:http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/29/bush.chirac.turkey/index.html
bq. “If President Bush really said that in the way that I read, then not only did he go too far, but he went into territory that isn’t his,” Chirac said of a remark Bush made over the weekend.
bq. “It is is not his purpose and his goal to give any advice to the EU, and in this area it was a bit as if I were to tell Americans how they should handle their relationship with Mexico.”
I find that pretty ironic since the last tiff began with Chirac telling Americans how to handle our relationship with Iraq. Granted, you could argue that Iraq is not in a position to join in an eco-political alliance (AKA, the EU and NAFTA) with us and Mexico is, so the situations are entirely different. All the same, fences are coming down and globalization is the buzz word of the millenium. Crying “none of your business!” reeks of childish naiveté.
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