November 25, 2002

Should we knock Jacques Chirac

Should we knock Jacques Chirac for reading a magazine during a NATO session? No. Not standing behind the U.S. on Iraq is a much better reason to blast Chirac. After watching C-SPAN for 10 minutes, you'll find that most government types are boring. I feel for Chirac. Sitting for hours while the defense minister of Belgium talks about their force levels and defense spending would cause me to doze off. Kathryn Jean Lopez does note that if President Bush was caught with a magazine--say Sports Weekly--he'd be skewered in the press, and it would become an international incident.