Geev zem eenough r-r-rope, Jacques

It appears as if the French are softening their hard-line stance against vetoing the British compromise after all, at least according to de Villepin. Of course, after the massive brow-beating heaped upon them in the British House of Commons yesterday plus the US State Department’s virtual announcement that we would go it alone in the event of an inevitable French veto, I’d suspect this to be the case.

It could be that de Villepin and the French government want this to come down to a UN vote so that the French veto would make any war seem dubious in the eyes of “international law.” Naturally, as an American I have a problem subscribing to any set of governing laws that operate on the basis of positivism. To put it bluntly, my forefathers didn’t fight and die to preserve the UN.