Monday, July 31, 2006

Message to the People

I want to take Europe seriously on Foreign Policy, I really do, but sometimes they just don't appear to be living in the same world as me:
The foreign minister of France, Philippe Douste-Blazy, is in Beirut today. This is the wisdom he imparted to his listeners: "In the region there is of course a country such as Iran--a great country, a great people, and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region."

And the reality-based community gets a little smaller.

2 comments:

Disenchanted Dave said...

Peretz doesn't cite a source, but it appears he did not pull a Zengerle. The quote appears genuine, according to Reuters.

Anonymous said...

Douste-Blazy is a notorious idiot (he doesn't even know the history and the geography of his own country) - and that is fortunately recognized by most French people.