![]() ![]() Yet, just like so many other NATO countries joining America’s war, French strategic priorities lay somewhere other than Afghanistan. For example, in front of the French National Assembly in November 2001, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin declared: “If France participates in this conflict, it is not against Afghanistan, but instead because the United States have suffered attacks of a rare violence and, as an ally, France has to side with the Americans.” On several occasions, French politicians declared that they would support the United States, as a matter of solidarity. ![]() President Jacques Chirac was the first leader to meet with President George W. The French daily Le Monde ran the headline “ We are all Americans” on the day after the attacks. Jean Michelin, Jonquille Afghanistan, 2012 (Gallimard, 2017)įollowing the 9/11 attacks, France quickly expressed its support to the United States. ![]()
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