VIVA LA FRANCE

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced he is suspending training operations in Afghanistan and is considering withdrawing France's 3,600 soldiers from there sooner rather than later. Why? An Afghan soldier Sarkozy's forces were training opened fire on them killing four and wounding a dozen. The US as well as France is incurring a spike in similar attacks as the locals we train practice marksmanship on their trainers. It turns out that many of them are illiterate criminals and drug addicts. The NY Times quotes a classified coalition report that these killings "have become the most visible symptom of a far deeper ailment plaguing the war effort: the contempt each side holds for the other, never mind the Taliban".

Once again, the French are getting it right while Uncle Sam keeps getting it wrong, wrong, wrong.