“In this case it may be more appropriate than one might first imagine. The prize, awarded by UNESCO, is known as the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in honor of the authoritarian president of of the Ivory Coast from 1960-1993. Could it be, as suggested in this very provocative article in the journal of the Strategic Culture Foundation, that France was over-eager to show its new Rafale fighter jets in action in hopes of scoring the “deal of the century” — a $12 billion sale of these thus far tepidly received fighters to India?”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132784.html
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