{"id":61,"date":"2003-04-11T05:50:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T05:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:55","slug":"whats_french_for_backpedalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s French for &#8216;Backpedalling&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory has many parents, but defeat is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/france\/story\/0,11882,934380,00.html\" target=\"browser\">orphan<\/a> (from The Guardian):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>France faces isolation as strains show in anti-war axis<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Summit Chirac under pressure at home and abroad <\/p>\n<p><font size=-1>Paul Webster in Paris, Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow and John Hooper in Berlin<br \/>\nFriday April 11, 2003<br \/>\nThe Guardian<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Jacques Chirac faced a backlash from his peace campaigning yesterday after warnings from his own party that France had gone too far in opposing Britain and the US, and now faced international isolation. <\/p>\n<p>The French president, described by the newspaper Lib\u00e9ration as the &#8220;king of peace without a crown&#8221;, was criticised by leaders of his UMP party for three weeks of silence since the invasion. <\/p>\n<p>Only yesterday, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, did Mr Chirac issue a comment. &#8220;France, like all democracies, rejoices,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/france\/story\/0,11882,934380,00.html\">Read the rest<\/a> and try not to chortle.<\/p>\n<p>Has Chirac behaved less arrogantly and with more principle, his position in France might be more secure.<\/p>\n<p>Even the French, it seems, have limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France faces isolation as strains show in anti-war axis, Chirac under pressure at home and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}