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the European Union "is corrupt, but he's our man"


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( Bernard Kouchner. Chancellor of France, referring to Afghan President Hamid Karzai )

probably paraphrased Kouchner, consciously, that memorable phrase of Franklin Delano Roosevelt . Four-time president of the United States asked why he tolerated the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza , to which Roosevelt replied: "Somoza is a son of a bitch, but he's our bastard."

The imperial realpolitik imposes costs that are not for sensitive stomachs to democracy and human rights.

In statements published by the New York Times the French foreign minister criticized the political and military disorganization European Union , and even defended Obama's Afghan policy, said NATO does not work for nothing " Afghanistan. "What is the objective? Which way?" On what? "He asked. It is exactly what many analysts wonder. Although the answer is found not to send more troops to a hopeless war.