French Minister Blasts Certain U.S. Ideas

[Flagg]

French Minister Blasts Certain U.S. Ideas

France's Defense Minister Criticizes U.S. 'Certain Radical Neoconservative Ideas'

The Associated Press



WASHINGTON Jan. 16 — France's Defense Minister criticized "certain radical neoconservative ideas" in the United States as harmful to U.S. relations with Europe.
While France remains a major partner of the United States, Minister Michele Alliot-Marie singled out on Friday what she called American aspirations for economic supremacy as well as assertions of cultural and political supremacy.

The French official did not identify whom she held responsible for asserting such views. "It is essential we recognize others' positions" as part of a trans-Atlantic discourse, she said.

In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a private research group, Alliot-Marie emphasized that Europeans had "a different sensibility" from the United States toward the Arab-Muslim world.


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040116_1941.html

[bowens43]

1. France - right again.

[denverbill]

2. I don't know how the hell we are supposed to get economic superiority

when we are shipping jobs to China and India.

Maybe he just means the economic elites will attain economic supremacy.

[peterh]

3. I see our mediawhores are on top of things…

Jan 16th…..must be a slow day in the news room….:eyes:

[kskiska]

4. She's not alone

I suppose that now she'll be "punished" by * for speaking out.

[OpenMindedDem]

5. Is this the same france

that doesn't allow Muslims to wear head scarves, or Jews to wear skull caps, or Christians to wear crosses in schools?

What about those radical ideas?

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[Mel]

7. if you'd like you can catch this on

C--Span they covered this event. The Defense Secretary was asked that question she said it was a matter of the separation of church & state in France per their Constitution.