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The Asia Times seems to think so. Perhaps he will replace Gordon Brown in Blair's old dog kennel. Gordon Brown has not received enough doggy treats and he may act sensibly and move the UK forces to Afghanistan. In earlier blogs I mentioned the fact that many of the illicit drugs coming into the UK are in fact coming from Afghanistan so perhaps Brown can make genuine efforts to stop this. When very ordinary folk in London like house surveyors and rogue builders are taking to snorting coke as a way to spend their high fees, more should be done about this, and also Brown should be helping more Afghans, rather than simply killing then as Americans still seem to do. This could lead to genuinely better relations all round.

Anyway, Sarkozy, (sometimes referred to with dry humour as "King Sakozy the First") has coined a sound bite "The Iranian bomb, or the bombing of Iran."

This seems to be at the same time that the IAEA making steady (and, hopefully, useful) progress on ironing out misunderstandings on Iran's nuclear program, and signing an understanding to that effect. The new casus belli du jour for attacking Iran seems to be that is that it is helping Shi'ite guerrillas kill American soldiers in Iraq - says Asia Times.

Sarkozy vaguely suggested that a possible solution to breach the West/Islam abyss would be for France to "help Muslim countries to have access to nuclear energy". As far as I know Sarkozy is not himself a nuclear scientist and is probably incapable of dealing with the real, deep, and dangerous problems in such a position.

One plus point Sarkozy seems to have is that he recognises the real danger that an Islamic Turkey could offer to the EU, but his quoted ideas of overcoming this problem seem unsuitable.