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PJM: 'Sarkozy of Arabia' Sending Troops to the Gulf - '"The French military may be the butt of a thousand chortling American jokes," says Scotsman Mr. Eugenides, but France’s new deal with the United Arab Emirates to build military bases in the Persian Gulf should be taken seriously...'
