After toying with the (atrocious) idea of
Hubert Védrine in the foreign minister's seat (hopefully only as a political ploy to show
an opening to
the left), Sarkozy now seems to be considering
Bernard Kouchner at the Quai d'Orsay…
As I mention in my book,
La Bannière Étalée, the former Doctors Without Borders founder has consistently been
the most popular member of the Socialist Party in polls throughout the country. Why, then, did the party not even consider choosing
Kouchner as a candidate in the presidential election (in which he would in all probability have given Nicolas Sarkozy a run for his money)?
Because
Kouchner — who has direct knowledge of "Saddam Hussein's bombs and mass graves since 1974" — supported the effort to topple Iraq's dictator. For the effrontery of doing something as despicable as siding with George W Bush,
Kouchner — who knows slightly more about "chaos", "tragedies", and "massacres" than the self-proclaimed (stay-at-home) experts in human rights — was sidelined and marginalized.
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