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Is M. Sarkozy a big old chicken hawk?

Several interesting commenters have crept up to our blog’s campfire in recent days, joining our intimate little band (wow, did see those two going at in in the My Lai item?) One of the newcomers, a perp self-identifying as "Jonny," got this advice from an old-timer around the cell block, "Don Bacon": France doesn’t seem ...

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Several interesting commenters have crept up to our blog’s campfire in recent days, joining our intimate little band (wow, did see those two going at in in the My Lai item?)

One of the newcomers, a perp self-identifying as "Jonny," got this advice from an old-timer around the cell block, "Don Bacon":

France doesn’t seem reluctant, except in actually doing anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy has called for air strikes on Libya. It is less than 800 miles from Toulon to Tripoli, and yet France with its enormous military infrastructure is incapable of striking Tripoli? France needs the U.S. to do it? I wonder why?

Bunch of chicken-hawks.

Now, I know am at odds with many of the little grasshoppers, who want to stay far away from Libya. Still, whatever you advocate doing there, it is an interesting question: If France wants to do something, why not do something, Jacques? What are you waiting for?

Monsieur Tyrtaios, wanna handle this? Any other friends of la France out there who wanna step up?

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
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