France, under President Jacques Chirac, has emerged as the most assertive member of the trio. He wants to get France back to the top of the agenda, ... He's going to do a lot of things, most of which we have to allow a little bit of French elan for, a little bit of their style of doing things, but the French nonetheless have a competent military, they have very strong foreign policy objectives. I think we'll see them pursue them.
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