I watched this roundtable discussion on tv. It was moderated by Charlie Rose. Participants included Pascal Bruckner, essayist; Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; Gerard Grunberg, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post; Tony Judt, NYU; Sylvia Kauffmann, Le Monde; Denis Lacorne, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; Ezra Suleiman, Princeton University.
There was a general consensus that President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin overplayed their hands in the winter of 2001 because of some kind of vanity.
