| An overwhelming consensus There exists today an overwhelming consensus in
the public debate on Iraq. If the means to be used are discussed, everyone agrees on the
fact that Iraq should be disarmed. Baghdad should unilaterally give up its weapons, which
were sold to him by Washington and which today the United States reproaches him for
having. We live an aberrant situation in which, in the name of international legality, the
dealer reproaches his customer for having the goods that it sold to him.
Vis-a-vis this situation, France must remember that it has one day be independent. It
must be put at the sides of Iraq, thus supporting a population which saw dying a million
and half as of his because of the bombardments or the economic blockade. This support,
certainly improbable, is in the interest of France if she does not want! not to see all
oil falling to the hands from the majors. In the same way, if the fight against terrorism
is really the reason of the war, it is necessary to support Saddam Hussein which is
undoubtedly the leading one which fought the most the networks islamists in his country.
France must come out of the logic of the European bunker and rediscover the virtues of
the bilateral agreements between sovereign nations. It will be objected that such an
attitude, which is unfortunately only one academic case, would insulate France in the
European Union and within NATO, but for us such an insulation would be a chance for France
and would not be equivalent to a fall of prestige of our country among people which
undergo the yoke of the dominations, quite to the contrary.
It is in the decisions to come that are played the answer to the great question which
will arise in next the décennie : what a is the place of the sovereignty of the
nation! S and, more largely, than is today of the freedom of the peupl are to determine to
them destin collectively?
Contribution published in Le Figaro (the United States) of Paul-Marie Coûteaux
(writer and European deputy RPF) of the General Gallois Pierre-Marie (director of
publication of the Geopolitical review) and Pierre Lévy (directing of the monthly
magazine Bastille-Republic-Nation). |
