Role Reversal :: New York Sun Editorial

The highlight of the week of the General Assembly for us has been the role reversal that Benny Avni, in his dispatch on page 7, writes about from Turtle Bay. He is referring to the address to the General Assembly by President Sarkozy, in which the new leader of the Fifth Republic struck a tone that was, let us say (we wouldn't want to use the word belligerent), moderately hawkish. It was only a few months ago (or was it years?) that the left was warning how we were alienating the peaceable French and the other Europeans. But this week Monsieur Sarkozy's remarks were in sharp contradistinction to the speech of President Bush, which was full of talk about soft-power and human rights. We were tempted to send some smelling salts over to the editorial sanctum of the New York Times in case anyone there came down with vertigo.

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