Smug Frenchmen?
: According to Google’s translation tool, there is no French equivalent for Schadenfreude, but you can bet there should be, for that is how the French are looking at the, shall we say, realistic pace of the war in Iraq. Says the Times of London:
THE travails of the coalition forces in Iraq were greeted with barely disguised satisfaction by many in France yesterday, as commentators concluded that Baghdad was already winning the battle for information in the war….
…a mood of
