Our long time allies, in this day is added to the long list of former friends, the french have not surprisingly been turned away by the near idiotic foreign policies of the Bush Administration. However, yet again we stand to learn a lesson from the French. The newly elected leader of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is setting a shining example of a how to build a foreign policy with meaning. Even as the leader of a former colonial power, he is showing the US how to have a policy in the African continent that is not all words. A policy that is not bent on capitalist gains and military conquest in the name of fighting terrorism.

Throughout this World Tour there has been considerable interest in France.  For that reason I am going to publish some e-mails to me from readers in France.  (With their permission of course.)  I am also publishing segments of another writers blog.  It is not that I do not appreciate the comments I have received from Canada, England, Norway and especially Spain but there has just been so much reader interest in France.