This story initially got me a little worked up, but then I read it again and realized that I'd been had. It is from MSNBC. Here's the full text, and here's the bit that got me worked up.
"But some analysts believe Bush may still be intent on sending messages about Chirac’s vigorous war opposition and the decision by Schroeder, the German leader, to make his antiwar stance a major plank in his successful re-election campaign.
Chirac and Schroeder said that U.N. weapons inspections should have continued in Iraq and that diplomatic options had not been exhausted before the war.
Bush wants to convey to France and Germany that “there is a price to pay for defying the United States in the way that they did,” said Ivo Daalder, who was a National Security Council Europe expert in the Clinton administration."
The bit that got me worked up was the phrase, "There is a price to pay for defying the United States . . ." But check where that quote is coming from. A Europe expert in the Clinton administration? Hmmmmm, I wondered why the language was so provocative. It's not like being a European expert enables you to understand the inner workings of an American presidency, particularly one who's philosophical leanings are presumably different from your own.
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