Wag le Chien (Sarkozy & Libia)

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Did French President Nicolas Sarkozy push the Libyan intervention to boost his re-election bid?

The man who introduced Sarkozy to the Benghazi rebels is none other than Bernard-Henri Lévy, a pop philosopher so French that I can't think of an American equivalent. We just don't have philosophers who wear their shirts unbuttoned, marry blond actresses, and take sides, enthusiastically, in wars in Bangladesh, Angola, Rwanda, Bosnia, and beyond. By siding with Lévy's emotional plea for humanitarian intervention—a decision that surprised even his own foreign minister—Sarkozy apparently thinks he might share some of the philosopher's glamour. Advertisement Sarkozy clearly hopes the Libyan adventure will make him popular, too.

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