Salon Napoléon III, the Elysee Palace, 15 h 45. A door opens. According to one scene from the White House, a figure walks towards the desk. The pitch agreed and bowed legs, Nicolas Sarkozy has a rendezvous with history. In the afternoon of March 19, Paris is the center of the world. And the French president, the undisputed leader of the international community.
For once, the United States has preferred to stick to a supporting role. The hour is grave. As the whispers in the audience, there is talk of going to war. As the president addresses the world, the French aircraft flying over Libya. Sarkozy is at his best in crises. Impulsive and daring, quick and opportunistic, it is a poor sea captain oil, but a commander in the extraordinary storm.
It has been amply demonstrated in 2008 when he took the inhibition of the United States - the result of the long transition of power between George W. Bush and Barack Obama - and his six-month presidency of the European Union to take the stage and set itself up as the main leader of the planet.
The resolution of the crisis in Georgia during the summer of 2008, was his work - as well as the response of the international community to the financial crisis to the next fall, and the resuscitation of the G20. His leadership has been widely applaudien France and abroad. The Libyan crisis, where the United States, for historical and political reasons, preferred to stay in the background, gave Sarkozy a new golden opportunity to emerge as a world leader.
And, incidentally, to burnish his political disaster in France. Who today remembers its passivity in the face of popular revolts in Egypt and Tunisia? Who today would dare accuse him of accepting a subordinate role and follower of the United States? The French president has behaved in the Libyan crisis as a perfect Gaullist.
France is beholden to anyone. And when she can, she goes against the grain. A little more than a year of presidential elections, Libya can change the scenario of a predicted defeat for Sarkozy. But the French president sees probably much further. Salon Napoléon III, the Elysee Palace, 16 hours and a few minutes.
Before placing its leaves and turn around, the French president launches a last sentence, solemn. "France is determined to play its role, its role before history." Sarkozy also. 
For once, the United States has preferred to stick to a supporting role. The hour is grave. As the whispers in the audience, there is talk of going to war. As the president addresses the world, the French aircraft flying over Libya. Sarkozy is at his best in crises. Impulsive and daring, quick and opportunistic, it is a poor sea captain oil, but a commander in the extraordinary storm.
It has been amply demonstrated in 2008 when he took the inhibition of the United States - the result of the long transition of power between George W. Bush and Barack Obama - and his six-month presidency of the European Union to take the stage and set itself up as the main leader of the planet.
The resolution of the crisis in Georgia during the summer of 2008, was his work - as well as the response of the international community to the financial crisis to the next fall, and the resuscitation of the G20. His leadership has been widely applaudien France and abroad. The Libyan crisis, where the United States, for historical and political reasons, preferred to stay in the background, gave Sarkozy a new golden opportunity to emerge as a world leader.
And, incidentally, to burnish his political disaster in France. Who today remembers its passivity in the face of popular revolts in Egypt and Tunisia? Who today would dare accuse him of accepting a subordinate role and follower of the United States? The French president has behaved in the Libyan crisis as a perfect Gaullist.
France is beholden to anyone. And when she can, she goes against the grain. A little more than a year of presidential elections, Libya can change the scenario of a predicted defeat for Sarkozy. But the French president sees probably much further. Salon Napoléon III, the Elysee Palace, 16 hours and a few minutes.
Before placing its leaves and turn around, the French president launches a last sentence, solemn. "France is determined to play its role, its role before history." Sarkozy also.
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