Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Libya: the European press, Sarkozy arises "warlord"

"Warlord" most French newspapers, but also foreign securities, stoop Monday, March 21 on the new role endorsed by Nicolas Sarkozy in launching military action in Libya. Style wants to be different. A "short statement" before the cameras of the world, Saturday afternoon, "serious face, voice neutral, upright posture," the Journal du Dimanche, without responding to questions from the press.

"I'm not doing this for fun," he confided, however, the weekly. To be worthy of the challenge, he "consulted extensively with Jacques Chirac, who said no to war in Iraq," révèleLe Parisien. "The president played the solemn" and, armed with this new posture, "has not met the Cantonal, Sunday evening," souligneLe World (Article Subscribers edition).

"The French like to have a head of state assets on the international scene", and "a good crisis," it may be just what he needed Nicolas Sarkozy, according to one diplomat quoted by the Guardian of London: he s 'acts to regain control, one year before a presidential election that promises to be difficult.

But also to forget the mistakes of the French diplomacy during the recent revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, and the reception given to Gaddafi in late 2007, "with honor" and "good business," said Die Welt German. Then there are "personal reasons", according to The Economist: "Gaddafi had called him a clown and his son Saif al-Islam has claimed without proof that Libya had helped finance his 2007 presidential campaign." It was therefore, continues Die Welt, "to behave as a crisis manager in the conflict in Georgia in 2008." Le Figaro described the President's diplomatic offensive in recent weeks.

Congratulated by a minister, he replied: "I have not played, I thought." The Economist praises "experience" the new Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, as Liberation. The JDD provides that Nicolas Sarkozy has persuaded Obama to follow the Libyan land ", by telephone on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

But no echo of that conversation in the New York Times, for which the reversal of Hillary Clinton led the U.S. President, even though it was followed a "brilliant tactical move" to adopt the French UN resolution. Still, it is the French president who is first in line to start the military action, it will fit "in 36 hours" Saturday's meeting at the Elysee Palace to "display the family photo of 19 'partner' European North American and especially Arab, "said Le Parisien.

The praise showered, notes La Libre Belgique, not without some gnashing of teeth by leNew York Times reported: "the first French sorties, which were not coordinated with other countries, have angered some leaders gathered in Paris, according a senior diplomat from a NATO country. It added that the movement of troops was clear from Gadhafi on Friday, but that France had blocked any agreement of NATO in anticipation of the meeting Paris.

" The role of Nicolas Sarkozy seems all the more important that "Hillary Clinton is playing a partition unusual in the annals of U.S. military interventions: humility," the Washington Post analysis. And The Economist warned: "If the French public welcomed the revival of national credibility, it has not yet been prepared for a long and dirty war." Claire Ané

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