While ScrappleFace reminds us of France's recent prediliction for multilateral solutions to world problems, John Cole points out that French unilateralism has a long, glorious history of its own.
In other Iraq-related news, Ipse Dixit argues that France and Germany, if they want the U.N. Security Council to remain a credible force, need to move off their anti-war position, but they've backed themselves into a corner with their increasingly hardline rhetoric.