Bernard Kouchner is the French Foreign Minister. In most countries, this person is responsible for diplomatic relations with other countries. In France, the Foreign Minister is responsible for determining who France is going to surrender to next.
Since France really hasn't been invaded or attacked since World War II, you can see why it's a difficult position. Essentially, the French Foreign Minister has had to find other ways to surrender to people - like allowing a foreign culture to come in and decimate the social welfare system and start riots across the country. It's harder than it sounds, people.
So Bernard Kouchner made an interesting observation recently. According to Bernie, the actions of George W. Bush and American foreign policy over the past 8 years has caused irreparable damage to America's reputation, and we will never be able to return to the position of prestige we once enjoyed.
Since France really hasn't been invaded or attacked since World War II, you can see why it's a difficult position. Essentially, the French Foreign Minister has had to find other ways to surrender to people - like allowing a foreign culture to come in and decimate the social welfare system and start riots across the country. It's harder than it sounds, people.
So Bernard Kouchner made an interesting observation recently. According to Bernie, the actions of George W. Bush and American foreign policy over the past 8 years has caused irreparable damage to America's reputation, and we will never be able to return to the position of prestige we once enjoyed.
If anyone is qualified to comment on damaged international reputations, it's France. This country is still being made fun of for getting invaded twice in less than 30 years - the second time resulting in a still unbeaten world record for most troops surrendered in 5 minutes or less. France is second only to Poland in terms of countries that have the most jokes about them.
So I guess we owe Bernie a thank you for alerting us to the impending damage to our international reputation. As a side note, after making this observation, Bernie went on to wax philosophical on how we need to talk out our problems with Hamas and other terrorist groups because Hamas is a completely rational organization.
