French President Jacques Chirac continues to show his ignorance.  While in England he contends that only the U.N. has the authority to authorize military action.  Hmmm.  I wonder if that is why the Germans marched over the French in WWI and WWII – they were waiting for U.N. authorization!

From CNN:

French President Jacques Chirac continued a fence-mending but at times edgy state visit to Britain Friday by reaffirming that the United Nations should decide on foreign interventions.

"It's not for any given country to consider that a situation is open to stepping in and interfering," he told a question-and-answer session with students at Oxford University, according to the UK's Press Association.

"It's up to the international community to do so and particularly the U.N., which alone has the authority to interfere," he said in remarks apparently aimed at the United States.

The French president — who backed a U.N. solution over Iraq — added that if countries took such action of their own accord, it would "throw the door wide open to hosts of reason to wage wars under the guise of legitimate interference."

The French just don't get it and won't until someone flies a 747 into the Eiffel Tower or marches an army across France and captures Paris.  Of course that wouldn't be particularly hard to do.

Full article here:  http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/19/uk.chirac.daytwo/index.html