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Just when France was starting to change it’s image of a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys they screw it up again.

Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States’ battered image and standing overseas, but that “the magic is over.”

To begin with I think most non-liberally-deranged persons would argue that the US image has been “battered”. In truth, it was battered as a result of Vietnam. We had the image of the paper tiger, unable and unwilling to defend ourselves. As a result, terrorists were truly surprised when we actually struck back after 9/11.

I think it can hardly be called a”battered” when we let the world know that we will not allow others to simply murder our citizens with impunity. It’s hardly a “battered” image when we will not tolerate repeated abuse and threats from an inhumane tyrant. It’s hardly a “battered” image when we declare to the world that those who preach hate and death are not our favorite people. Of course, consider that this is coming from a country whose leading export is white flags.

And I got news for the French. America didn’t get her due to “magic”. The United State is not the country it is because of “magic”. There is no “magic” to be over. Just because America has achieved what France has tried and failed at, doesn’t mean we took a shortcut or it was due to magic. But you might want to consider that perhaps part of our “magic” is that we don’t worry about trivial crap like a “battered image”. We do what is right and good, without regard to the consequences. Deal with it.