Unlikely National Self-Assessment of the Week

"We were trying to be modest, we were trying to be nice, to be un-French for a change." -- SENIOR FRENCH OFFICIAL EXPLAINING HOW AMERICAN DIPLOMATS MISCONSTRUED FRENCH SIGNALS INDICATING WILLINGNESS TO SUPPORT LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO IN BOSNIA

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