Sarkozy and his blushing bride were in Africa this week (South Africa &Chad), of course accompanied by 40 of France’s top business leaders as well. In one of his speech, he referred to new accords between France’s future involvement in its former colonies. Well, that’s good news, considering how much France has interfered in Africa’s military, economic and social fields. Our leaders will then face responsibility and accountability in their actions with no prospect of help from the West. The only thing that worries me, is it might just make it harder for the necessary interventions France should be making (Darfur to cite one of them). Sarkozy has been very vocal about changing France and Africa’s relations. given how bad it’s crippled Africa, I think the change is more than welcome. Though hopefully, this is not just a tactic to deny help where it’s called for. Let Deby battle it out with his rebels. You come fighting, you leave fighting.
Of course the speech in South Africa was much different and had to do with energy. The country has been suffering power outages nationwide that has many fear it could possibly slow economic growth. Alstom (french) on Friday signed a deal worth €1.36 billion (about US$2 billion) to equip a new coal power station for South Africa. Rumours also abound about another billion dollar deal involving French nuclear giant Areva and US group Westinghouse Electric to build a nuclear power plant in South Africa.
Call Sarkozy what you want, but he works hard. (There are hard working scums out there!)
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I’m puzzled at the amount of irresponsibility witnessed here. Prince Harry goes to Afghanistan. I’m not sure whether it’s just a spoil move (blame him), craziness from his entourage (blame Buckingham), laxism from the army (blame the military) or mere irresponisability of the media (blame the press) for leaking this story. It was reported yesterday the Prince, 3rd in line to the throne was in Afghanistan fighting since December. I’m sure he was on the Most wanted list ever since the news came out. Today, Britain has decided to bring him back. We can all agree this is too much a risk for him and his brigade to go through. In the end, it took four irresponsible, crazy, laxist, spoiled to make this move happen. But hey, he’s back in England, safe and sound, and should stay there.
Somehow, it was commendable for him to go. Just not worth getting killed over. After all, if Britain can send their troops there to fight, they can send a royal. It’s like Michael Moore standing on the steps of Congress in Fahrenheit 9/11 asking congressmen how many kids they had sent or be willing to send to Iraq. The response was an overwhelming “not many”.
