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DOM BREAKS THE BAD NEWS
But Who Will Subsidize France Once We're Gone?

Here's a news item retrieved from the Google cache. (The news site, Iran's PressTV, appears to be down.)

DE VILLEPIN: FORGET US AS ALL-POWERFUL
Former French Prime Minister,
Who Had Opposed The US Invasion Of Iraq,
Says Washington Will Never Be The All-powerful Again.

The headline isn't enough. This pronouncement needs a deck saying the same thing.

November 3, 2008 (PressTV) - In an interview with the French weekly "Le Journal du Dimanche" published on Sunday, Dominique de Villepin said the US presidential elections is a new era, in which Democratic candidate Barack Obama can reinvent the American dream, "but the United States would never be the all-powerful."

That's it. Game over. [We press replay.] Not to worry, the French now pronounce America has the game changer.

When asked if a new America is possible, the former French prime minster said:

It is inevitable, as the old American dream is broken.

The question in front of the winner of the US election is simple, as well as difficult: How the US that confronted an "existential" crisis would be able to adapt itself to a new world? How to reinvent an ideal US after eight years of nightmare?

The "'existential' crisis", in case you missed the angst, was the recent election.

Well, with "dark America" reduced to, what? -- French proportions -- the question becomes, where is a leaderless world to find a wise and capable beloved leader? Dom gave us a hint in his 2004 overstock sensation, Le requin et la mouette.*

After the first globalization dominated by Spain at the time of the Renaissance, and after the second, launched by the Industrial Revolution and dominated by the Anglo-Saxons, cannot one wager that the third globalization, that of identities, of cultures [and this and this] and of symbols [and this, oh, and this chestnut], will bring a new spirit to French ambition? For the values that energize our ambition are equally those to which international society aspires--the universal rights of man, faith in solidarity [and here] and fraternity [and sorority], the hope of reuniting [!] all human differences in the single human community [oh, and this], the need to correct the distortions of the market by means of regulation.

Oh. France. To be honest we were hoping for something with more umph. Yes, well. There you go. Game over. [Pause.] No replay.

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* Spoiler: The shark (scil., le requin) represents America.

The seagull (scil., la mouette) represents -- take a guess.

PFFT (What is this?): Giddy Dom 4½ | France off the bench 0 | Rayonnement français 0