Haven’t seen Jonah’s File yet today. But let me mention preemptively that I’ve never attacked him directly as being a pure representative of the “French are appeasers” school, because I never got the impression that that is exactly what he thinks. The weird thing—as I’ve discussed with him—is that his Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey phrase captures perfectly the “appeasers” view, even if Jonah doesn’t entirely hold it himself. I think we agree that France is wrong, perfidious even (!), about Iraq. And hope that France’s obstruction over Iraq and its power-grab in Europe both fail so utterly that Jonah’s little Lucy one day, years from now, will look wondrously up into his eyes and ask, “Daddy, what were Surrender Monkeys?”
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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