Sarkozy resolute on Afghanistan despite death of 10 French soldiers

The French president sees Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, as a matter of global security and NATO responsibility.

 

By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the August 20, 2008 edition

 

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An Agence France-Presse report on French troops ambushed in Afghanistan.Paris - The 10 French paratroopers killed and 21 wounded in Afghanistan – nearly an entire platoon and the highest French casualties since 1983 in Lebanon – were from a battalion that took control of Kabul only two weeks ago. The event hit Paris hard enough to cause French President Nicolas Sarkozy, fresh from negotiating the Georgian dispute in Moscow, to leave for Afghanistan Tuesday evening to visit the troops.

 

Both Mr. Sarkozy and the clearly angry French minister of defense, Hervé Morin issued tough statements in support of the French Afghan mission – a mission Sarkozy has steadily supported as a matter of world security and NATO responsibility, in contrast with the Iraq war.

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No you must still eat "AMERICAN" fries and other such foods.

French boycotts are still going on? That was so 5 years ago, haha. FREEDOM FRIES, FREEDOM TOAST.

 

I remember when Bill O'Rielly was doing this, I wasn't too into the boycott, but I wanted to be a pain in the butt to one of my teachers when we were using some French products for class, and a few others and myself said we had boycotted French products. Basically the teacher got pissed and nothing else happened, haha.