France likes to present itself as "one of America’s principal rivals around the world", so with the seizure of "the most electable French person" and locking him up, according to an American lynch mentality not enough unapproved (like arresting the dictator of Panama and throwing him in a jail in Florida, or awarding Saddam Hussein's revolver to George W. Bush, or the bombing of places where Qaddafi is thought to hide and killing his son and grandchildren), France have fallen within the pattern … [Read more...]