In the current crisis, some French politicians have lashed out at the United States for not calling for an immediate cease-fire. Presidential hopeful and former culture minister Jack Lang called Bush a "fanatic" whose policies in the Middle East have encouraged terrorism.

Even the foreign minister didn't rule out a heightening of U.S.-French tensions last weekend and stressed, sounding frustrated, how "completely different" the U.S. and French approaches were.

But [director of the French Institute of Strategic Analysis Francois] Gere said the remarks were aimed at domestic and Arab world audiences.
[AP via Newsvine]
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Aufsehenerregend ist das nicht; ich finde es nur immer wieder schön, zu sehen, wie Politik funktioniert.