Jacques Chirac, the former French president who opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, once said that “war always means failure”. With French forces engaged in three theatres – Afghanistan, Libya and now the Ivory Coast, his successor and one-time adversary, Nicolas Sarkozy, is hoping to prove him wrong.
President Sarkozy this week authorised French troops to take sides in the fierce fighting between Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of last November’s presidential election in the former French colony, and the reluctant outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo.
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