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The Only Good Cowboy is a French Cowboy

New York Times, impressed when Sarkozy cowboys up.  Hey, what about this cowboy?  

Sarkozy’s a literate, sensitive cowboy. He does say some of that distasteful cowboy stuff sometimes. But Schumer likes the way he looks in a cowboy suit.  He wouldn’t do anything crazy like go charging off half-cocked after that Sioux war party up on the hill.  He’s one erudite cowboy. What in tarnation!?! … He’s a rootin’-tootin’ America-bashin’ cowboy!   

“In France, history is something that counts. Please don’t be angry with us because we remember what happened to us. Is there even a single country of the world, at any time of history, that was able to maintain itself in a sustained way in a country that was not its own, uniquely by the force of arms? Never, not a single one, even the Chinese.”

Well, OK, maybe the Allies in Germany.  The Krauts didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to stop all that mass murder, enslavement, periodic invading of France, etc.  Force of arms massively applied.  You’d think that the French, history counting and all that, might remember that “what happened” to them, uniquely, was their liberation by force of arms not their own. The thing is, with tough nuts like Germany, Japan, Iraq, you follow on with L’Ideas, like Le Freedom and Le Democracy and Le Development Economique.  Arms still required.  Or, like the Chinese in Tibet, you just uniquely apply the force of arms. But I digress.  

Sarkozy says he wants to be our podner.  Sit around the campfire, eat beans, maybe go punch some cows with us. Poke ‘em, tip ‘em, head ‘em up, move ‘em out, whatever. But is he gonna be there when a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do?

Crittenden to Sarkozy, helpfully. If you’re gonna be a cowboy, you’ll need to ditch the accordion.

NYT Ed Board: Let’s not go crazy with that cowboy thing.

Howdy, ‘Punditners!  Sit a spell. George over there just winked at one of the Crowned Heads of Europe.  Can’t take that boy anywhere.  He just don’t know when to give up, do he? Whoa, look at what these damned furriners were up to.  That’s OK, sounds like maybe they were one steer shy of a roundup. One gallon short of a Stetson. All clowns, no rodeo. 

Hats off, gents, respectful moment of silence for a fallen cowboy.

Topics: Bush, France

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:22 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2007

13 Responses to “The Only Good Cowboy is a French Cowboy”

1. corndog Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 7:34 am

   No, he couldn’t be like Bush. Sarkozy isn’t terrified of horses.

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4. corndog Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 8:59 am

   Jules asks, “But is he gonna be there when a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do?”

   If he’s talking about tragedies such as invading Iraq, Jules answers his own question: “He wouldn’t do anything crazy like go charging off half-cocked after that Sioux war party up on the hill.”

5. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 9:43 am

   Hey,Sarkozy wears cowboy boots! Not my choice of style (I prefer walking boots myself), but it appears to be a growing trend amongs world leaders.

6. RebeccaH Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am

   Great editorial on the French election, Jules. We’ll see how much “cowboy” Sarkozy has in him.

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8. OccamsBeard Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 11:41 am

   Is there even a single country of the world, at any time of history, that was able to maintain itself in a sustained way in a country that was not its own, uniquely by the force of arms?

   This would be the French appreciation of history?

   Uh, let’s see. How about the Romans, the Persians, the Mongols, the Huns, the Visigoths, the Aztecs, (closer to home for the French) the Normans, the Arabs (Islam), the Spanish, and, more recently, the Americans?

   What a silly thing to say.

9. tim maguire Says:
   May 8th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

   Is there even a single country of the world, at any time of history, that was able to maintain itself in a sustained way in a country that was not its own, uniquely by the force of arms?

   It’s a trick question–for most of history, those territories held by force of arms were considered part of the country–NOT some other country. In fact, force of arms is how countries get built in the first place.

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