[Nicholas Sarkozy and Bernard Kouchner, two hope-to-die war-lovers (remember, Kouchner’s 2004 auto-bio is called ‘Les Guerriers Pour La Paix’ or ‘Warriors for Peace,’ and Sarkozy . . . is short.), have effectively completed France’s unconditional surrender to the anti-democratic (read: Fascist) aggressors in the post-Soviet wars for globalized neo-liberal Waste-Capitalism, with their mortgaging of France’s international moral stature and political influence, its hard-earn reputation as a champion of democracy and Human Rights and as a force for Reason moved by Decency, to the junk-bondage-brokers at those misery exchanges, NATO, AFRICOM, the UN, and the US State & Defense Departments, for a seat at the rigged war game of African resource roulette.

And nothing better describes the current emptiness at the moral/spiritual core of France's national identity (what I like to call its 'Empty Burkah Syndrome') than the recent arrest--and near immediate release for lack of any substantive charge, but with an ever-looming prospect of extradition to Rwanda--of Mme Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of the martyred Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana, on the accusation that she conspired to murder her husband as a way to launch her 'Little House' pet-project: the liquidation of Rwanda's Tutsi minority. Even the reprehensible Phillip Gourevitch's unspeakable colon must be spasing out behind this one.