On Thursday, a guest on a Canal + talk show said that America under Bush was worse than the Soviet Union under Brezhnev.
I am not positive who the celebrity speaking was (at the exact moment that I turned on the set, the host was repeating what he had just heard); it may have been Jean-Marc Barr or Jennifer Ayache, but I think it was Tariq Abdul Wahad.
In this, the Descartesian nation of debate, no person, needless to say, rose to express even a limited sense of contradiction. Or even to ask whether the Poles, to take an example of people directly concerned by the Soviet leader, were likely to agree with the statement.
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
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