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Unlike some Western officials who visit Baghdad, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had no national troops to buck up when he began his surprise three-day visit Sunday. After all, Paris opposed the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein, with warnings of dire consequences that have mostly come to pass. So what was Kouchner's purpose in the Iraqi quagmire that most of his countrymen look to with "we told you so" dismay? In large part, to send the clear signal to Washington that France is determined to continue mending diplomatic relations that deteriorated, in large part, over Iraq...
...been lost on us that the road to Washington passes through Baghdad, and we happily took note that the U.S. was the first to react to [Kouchner's] visit with praise," a French Foreign Affairs Ministry official told TIME of this first voyage to Iraq by a government official from France since the war began. However, the official also acknowledged that beyond the message sent to America about French desire to replace past conflict with diplomatic partnership on Iraq, Kouchner's visit wouldn't produce much in the way of hard results. "It's of symbolic significance," he said...
...This wasn't some new kind of diplomacy, and it didn't create a new role for the First Lady," Sarkozy scolded a reporter who asked why his wife had played a greater part in the final days of talks than even Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had. Instead, he said, both his approach to the crisis, and his wife's involvement marked "a new pragmatism in foreign affairs." Also, when asked to explain exactly why he took up the somewhat remote and curious cause of six Bulgarians, Sarkozy replied with a slightly quirky answer of his own. "They were French...
...Superhero for Sudan It's been said that man's inhumanity to man is not hatred but indifference [July 9]. Thank God for people like France's Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who bring the genocide and horrors of Darfur to the forefront. Men and women like him are the true superheroes of our universe. Ray Westbrook, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...been said that man's inhumanity to man is not hatred but indifference [July 9]. Thank God for people like France's Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who bring the genocide and horrors of Darfur to the forefront. Men and women like him are the true superheroes of our universe...