President Nicolas Sarkozy of France at Columbia University World Leaders Forum

[ibnjay7]

pretty sensible and rationale man.

[muhammadzahmad]

wow! it's great to have the president of France here..

[thegreeensky]

nice speech.. that was awesome!

[potpie921]

I wanna study there

[venusprojection]

He thinks that "any one nation, no matter how powerful, cannot force it's views on the rest of the world". On the flip side, he believes that a collective union of nations should be able to force their views on any one nation.

[baronessvondengler]

Largest army, yes. But strongest economy, I think you mean China, Mr. President.

[tikurgisila]

Now you have invited the leader of the genocidal regime in Ethiopia to discuss economics. It was only in 2005 that he ordered nearly 200 civilians to be shot dead on the streets of Addis for protesting against a rigged election.

Shame on you Columbia.

[venusprojection]

11:52

He wants to rule the world.

[ksalaska]

@venusprojection He said the world is a mutlipolar world and that the United States cannot do it alone anymore. You are lost.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaskaHe said in order to rule the world... to govern the world... one must enter into dialogue. I know what his point is. He is a globalist who believes that there should be a global constitution and that all nations should work together. To him, any country that wants to remain sovereign is an enemy. I'm not lost at all. I don't think America ever "ruled the world", nor do I think there should ever be one centralized ruling power, and I view the idea of global government as just that.

[ksalaska]

@venusprojection Do you realize that the majority of the world suffers at the hands of American interests. America has 300 million people. Do you believe that this minority should make the law the influence the world? The world needs to cooperate to survive.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaska I disagree with your analysis and do not believe that America "makes the law" for the rest of the world, nor that we cause the majority of the world to suffer. I would like to know what exactly it is you're referring too instead of general accusations. What exactly does "the world needs to coorperate to survive" mean, as well? Socialist internationalists like Sarkozy are just control freaks who want to impose their will on the rest of the world.

[ksalaska]

@venusprojection The United States, particularly Wall Street, and the corporations of the Military Industrial Complex influence a large part of the world. The US intelligence community has ultimate power. For example, look at Ecuador's recent coup attempt. Get real.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaska Wall Street is not the United States, first of all. Second of all, the military industrial complex is something that Americans are waking up to and can and should be stopped. However, what you fail to realize is that getting involved in foreign affairs (like in the example you gave, or the iraq war or afghanistan war) is due interventionist foreign policy. Interventionist foreign policy is in direct conflict with what the founders of the US had in mind and wrote/spoke about.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaska So, what you wrongly blame on The United States in general, is the really the fault of out of control big government. Libertarian Conservatives are in the process of taking the US back to it's constitutional roots and if we are successful then a lot of what you seem to hate (chronie-capitalism and m.i.c.) will be reigned in and or eliminated completely without the need for a world socialist government.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaska Overall, you have named legit problems but have wrongly placed the blame the idea of free market capitalism and the principles laid out in the us constitution and bill of rights. This is what government does. They create problems and place the blame on whatever it is they want to see destroyed, posing as the saviors.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaska The United States is, like any other country ought to be, a sovereign nation. In the US, the government answers to we the people and we are free to live and govern in any which way we choose so long as we do not impede on the rights of each other. I know this must be a foreign concept to you, but we do NOT answer to any other international governing body, especially when that body holds beliefs and values vastly different from our own.

[venusprojection]

@ksalaskaThe world has always been a multipolar world. America became a super power in the world due to free market principles, the US constitution and American ingenuity. People and nations should look at the United States as an example and they can become prosperous as well. The idea that a group of politicians should lead international government agencies and pressure nations to join, calling them "weak" if they choose not too, in order to create a one world government is insanity.

[McHunt7]

Very passionate and honest speech. Encore Mr. Sarkozy!!!

[amazier]

et encore que du bleuf! mdr

[Chachyi]

Pretty interesting speech...