CENTER-RIGHT CANDIDATE NICHOLAS SARKOZY'S VICTORY IN THE RECENT FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:   ONLY A FIRST STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IN FRANCE & OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- FOR EUROPE TO PREVAIL OVER THE INSIDIOUS CULTURAL ONSLAUGHTS THAT PRESENTLY THREATEN IT, WHAT IS REQUIRED?  A MAJOR SHIFT FROM THE NIHILISM OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT & A RENEWED RESOLVE TO STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF MILITANT ISLAM

FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES

FRANCE, ISLAM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY OF FRANCE UNDER THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF JACQUES CHIRAC -- A PATTERN OF EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN RULERS HOSTILE TO INTERNATIONAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR & IN CONFLICT WITH WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CHIRAC'S PRO-ARAB, PRO-ISLAMIST POLICY & THE MOTIVATIONS DRIVING THAT POLICY -- WHAT WILL BE THE LEGACY OF THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE?

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