The French are a little behind the US in many ways...for example the French still think Jerry Lewis is "funny."
Now the French are going to have to realize that electing right wing screwballs to run their country is not really a good idea....as the Americans have recently discovered...
Exit stage right: The Bush, Cheney, Rove incompetents...
How can Syria "prove a negative"...namely that they are not "interfering" in Lebanese politics... It's up to the powers that be in Lebanon to elect a government...and just because the Neocon/CIA candidate "doesn't win" is not proof of Syrian interference in the internatl affairs of Lebanon...!
Apparently the West is allowed to interfer anywhere and everywhere without criticism...since the West always represents the forces of Sweetness and Light...
Sarkozy will likely have to use wedge issues in France just like Bush did in the US to stay in power.
