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by JASmius

Bizzaro World just will not go away:

Conservative leaders, fond of finger-pointing at France in recent years, lavished praise on Paris Sunday for blocking an agreement between Western powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.

"Vive la France!" Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, an outspoken voice on national security issues, wrote on his Twitter account.

"France had the courage to prevent a bad nuclear agreement with Iran," he said, after the weekend announcement of the failed agreement with the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, known as the P5+1.

During three days of intense negotiations in Geneva, France repeatedly voiced concerns over various points in a possible deal and its lack of guarantees, a position that had Iran calling it a negotiations spoiled sport.

Since I take it for granted that the communist regime in Paris hasn't suddenly discovered its inner Napoleon, we're left with a pile of overlapping cynical speculations.  Perhaps President Hollande didn't want Barack Obama stealing his surrender thunder; or maybe he wanted to buy time to affect an under-the-table quid pro quo with the mullahs that will give France full, unilateral "credit" for a "breakthrough" deal when it's announced in bombshell fashion.  There's always the possibility that the mullahs have already built a nuclear arsenal bigger than Pakistan's, and Hollande has negotiated a separate, secret accord with Tehran to spare France from nuclear attack while America gets EMP'd.

And then it just might be that even a Marxist fellow traveler is less insane than King Hussein is.

Regardless, while it's hardly necessary or palatable to so obsequiously sing the praises of the French, this does mark a new low in the free fall of both America's and The One's international prestige.  Whatever internal differences there may have been in the Western Alliance over the years, the U.S. was still acknowledged as the leader of the free world.  Now that mantle has been publicly, humiliatingly usurped by France.  France.  FRANCE.  Seriously, were any of O's predecessors so blatantly submarined like this?

Obviously this means red alert at the White House.  False Messiah needs to schedule a major "historic" speech at the Elysee Palace right away.