By Katrin Bennhold
International Herald Tribune
August 24, 2007
As one of the most concrete consequences yet of the thaw in French-American relations following the election in May of President Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s Iraq policy is shifting. France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an “honest broker” between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions. During a three-day visit to Baghdad that ended Tuesday, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said that the time had come for France, and Europe, to play a greater role in Iraq…more