International -- Readers Report
The French Don't All Agree with Chirac
I find it extremely irritating to read articles and letters that seem to regard President Jacques Chirac's views as if they were the views of all French people ("France's dangerous hypocrisy," Editorials, Mar. 10). At the first round of the last elections, Chirac got only 19% of the votes but, allowing for abstentions, merely 10% of the registered electorate. Your readers who are inclined to view Chirac's opposition to America as a sign of tenacity or even courage should know better. Threatening President Bush with a veto is one thing; daring to reform the state and break the absolute power of the unions of fonctionnaires is quite another. Then, you'll find not even a mouse that roared, but a jellyfish.
Jean-Bernard Brisset
St. Sever, France
What the Bush Administration Lacks in Vision
"Building a multilateral world" (Editorials, Mar. 24) is an intelligent and welcome blueprint for reform of the U.N. The task is necessary and requires a generous and open-minded vision of the world that, sadly, the Bush Administration lacks utterly. The Administration's hegemonic aims, stated in the "Wolfowitz doctrine" National Security Strategy document of 2002, as well as its heavy infiltration by dual-loyalty Zionist hard-liners have put a permanent stamp of discredit on its capability to deal with such noble tasks.
Giovanni De Lord
Brussels
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