Francois Heisbourg
Francois Heisbourg
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In Beirut when the civil war began, you had electricity 24 hours a day and running water all the time, and the air conditioning was working, and so were the elevators. In the case of Baghdad, it looks like Beirut after 10 years of civil war.
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Merkel has a tiny window of opportunity at the EU summit in June of 2007, but even then it is very small.
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French society was a lot more violent in the 1960s and 70s,
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Russia does not want to have another nuclear power in its region,
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We don't know of course what the Americans will want from the allies, whether they will see (us) as desirable participants or whether we'll be seen as people who are best put in the back row.