We, the French, have the art of arguing about solutions to problems not depending on us, or on secondary issues, in order to bury better the strategic choices within our reach, because we do not want to make them.
All current events (financial crisis, climate, nuclear or military issues) send back to the need for a global Rule of Law. And therefore, for a new organization of the world.
With the joint statement of the American and French presidents, and British Prime Minister, the military operations in Libya appear, without any debate on this issue in the Parliament of these three countries, to be entering a new phase: it is no longer a question of protecting civilian lives at risk, as required by Resolution Number 1973 of the UN Security Council, but to get rid of Gadhafi.
The publication of the program of the Socialist Party went almost unnoticed: no discordant voices on the left; and almost no controversy on the right, but some criticisms for the sake of it. Similarly, the program of the National Front has hardly raised any basic reaction; and when the right will publish its proposals, we can expect the same indifference.
Two seemingly unrelated topics have occupied and still occupy our minds: the global financial crisis and the nuclear accident in Japan. In fact, they have numerous similarities.
Once again, a problem we thought to be local is becoming global: you liked Californian subprime? You will love Japanese nuclear waste…
Some leaders, including those of France, embarked themselves full of innocent enthusiasm in an uncertain conflict against the mad dictator of Libya, without answering three questions that would have deserved to be publicly discussed…
We must act today differently regarding risk management.
What is the use of talking about the « roots » of a country, as does the President of the Republic and all the right-wing, if not to give, implicitly or explicitly, to those who are connected to them the property right on the country, or at least some ownership over others?
