6/29/2004 02:24:41 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

It seems that Jacques Chirac has select undergarments of his in a wad

Chirac said on Monday that Bush should not comment on Turkey's EU entry hopes as EU affairs were none of his business.

"If President Bush really said that the way I read it, well, not only did he go too far but he went into a domain which is not his own," Chirac told reporters at the summit.

"It is like me trying to tell the United States how it should manage its relations with Mexico," he added.

Ahh, the French. It's still so cute - they think they actually have influence as far away as Mexico. The French government is lucky to have influence outside France.

The difference, of course, between reality and Jacques Chirac is that the United States does in fact have influence in Europe, and especially in Eastern Europe. If the French weren't such xenophobes, the thought of Turkey entering the EU would not be all that extreme an idea, and Chirac would not have his slip in a wad. What makes the French position all the more absurd is that the other major members of the EU, to include the UK and Germany, are for Turkish inclusion in the union.

UPDATE Bill Hobbs notes a similar absurdity, as does George Miller.

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