Sarkozy sees through Obama

May the rest of the world do the same before it's too late.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, came close to mocking his American counterpart for the good intentions, which Mr Obama had heralded as an "historic" step towards nuclear abolition, even though it set no specific targets or fresh mandates.

"We live in a real world not a virtual world," the Frenchman told the 15-member council. "And the real world expects us to take decisions.

"President Obama dreams of a world without weapons ... but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.

"Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.

"I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map," he continued, referring to Israel.

The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama's resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.

"If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons," he said.

Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president's disarmament crusade "naïve".

We live in dangerous times... Obama is making them more so.

Comments

[Chris Vehr]

Times have changed. Used to be the French who were the wimps.

[Toejam]

Sorry birthers, Obama probably was born in Hawaii.

But I bet he was conceived on the left bank of the Seine after a Communist orgy on the Rue de Rennes.

Sarkozy's parents were not totally French. His father was a Hungarian and mother a part Greek-Sephardic Jew (Take note Ms Stone of NBC).

He's a Center-Right politician just like Angela Merkel (German head of State).

But both countries are overwhelmingly Left-wing bastions so I doubt he'll be able to counter Dear Leader's Socialist Blitzkrieg.
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