The rantings by American pundits such as Thomas Friedman, as well as by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, about the irrelevancy and spoiler role of the garlic eating, wine-quaffing nation of France misses the point entirely. All the talk about the meaning of perfidious, the passion to be at the center of the world that can never be fulfilled, and how India, and not France, belongs on the Security Council, fails to take into consideration that France is a country with a gigantic economy, with huge companies with vast resources that are gobbling up banks in the west of the … Continue reading Carving Up the Pie