Der Spiegel article in English on Rice's Paris speech and link to

[bobbieinok]

Spiegel's opinion

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,340888,00.html

[Swamp Rat]

1. Danke! n/t

[diamond14]

2. OMG ! condi....a DEMON turned diplomat.....WOW !!!

condi is busy pissing off the whole wide world....this is NOT good for the USA....obviously, condi was a very poor choice to represent America.....

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French Size Up Rice

By Jody K. Biehl in Berlin

One French paper says Condoleezza Rice is a demon turned diplomat. Another notes that she dresses just like she negotiates -- with suave understatement. A third insists the fires of French-American antipathy need to be doused, not fanned. One day after Condi's first big speech, French critics both praise the Secretary of State and pick her apart.


"France rejects the idea that the American model of democracy needs to be imposed throughout the world, even through non-military means," the paper says.

[AlinPA]

3. Do they still serve "freedom fries on Air Force One?

(RE: "One of the people who during the first Bush administration was seen by the French as one of the little demons pushing Bush on his war crusade, is arriving in Paris today with what is apparently a plan to convince us, rather than a desire to simply sign us up" to her way of thinking. That is a step forward, it says. Also seemingly banned in Washington are the "little anti-French phrases" that so often slipped into top administration officials' dialogue during Bush I.)