Guns With the Wind

So how is that new era of cooperation — talking with friends and foe alike — working for you, Mr. Apologizer-in-Chief?

Dimitri Medvedev's charm offensive to Paris seems to be paying benefits, according to Natalie Nougayrède in Le Monde, as France weighs selling weapons to Russia, notably four of its Mistral helicopter transport ships.

No wonder that Plantu shows Nicolas Sarkozy merrily tearing up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) paper as, to the consternation of Uncle Sam looking — helplessly — on, the French president sells weapons to Dimitri Medvedev and his Russian generals. And as of this writing, (very) few readers of Le Monde have intervened to express anger over the (seeming) betrayal of NATO, of Georgia, and/or of "our American friends"…