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Dan and Mary
went to a bar on They did get
into a political discussion having to do with the crisis in On the subject
of who should send troops to the area, all those in the group at the bar
(including a man from That is exactly
my opinion, too. I am amazed that I
have not read any editorials along these lines in either French or American
newspapers (in addition to the papers we buy every day, I read some online). What I do read
in the “person on the street” interviews in Le Parisien is that generally, people here in France think that
only the United States has the power to bring about the cease fire, so
therefore the whole mess is the United States’ to solve. While there may be some truth to that, the
general feeling of powerlessness in the EU may be a self-fulfilling
prophecy. There is no serious talk
here, that I have detected, about France, in
particular, with its enormous colonial past in that part of the world (and in
Lebanon especially), and with the Vichy government’s complicity in the
Holocaust, would seem to have very high levels of responsibility when it
comes to the question of who should send peacekeeping troops and who should
step in to try to control the situation.
While I love Back to
beautiful Yesterday, we
took the métro to Odéon and had a nice visit with our September landlord,
Ron. Ron is a retired American
designer who has taught at important universities in The terribly loud construction work in the
street below our current apartment mercifully moved down the street a little
way, and has now stopped for the day.
I think all this work is scheduled to be completed in October, which
is when we will no longer be here. But
we can enjoy the results next year.
I am reading Nicolas Sarkozy’s new
book, Temoinage (Testimony). It is one of the big bestsellers this year
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