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Originally Posted by Lucas Corso
As many French writers have said, he is a Balzacian figure, the adventurer devoured by ambition who makes his way to the city and by superlative drive and tireless energy arrives at the very brink of his dreamed-for success. He could as easily be a man of the left as of the right. His allegiance is to success.
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I think this is the best description of Sarkozy, I got aware of this during his speech yesterday.
I used to see him as a puppet of the neo-cons, a man who would further americanize France and even "thatcherize" her, but he is not. As said, his allegiance is neither to Washington or Tel-Aviv nor to France, but to success and ambition. He just supports American-like policies because he thinks that they are the most successful ones, and thus they will help him stay at power. He would become nationalist all of a sudden if that made him more powerful.