The Election of Sarkozy is a Shift to Vichy

May 7 (EIRNS)--Today's edition of Le Figaro runs an editorial by one Thierry Wolton, who welcomes the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as a return to the tradition of those who collaborated with Hitler, and a rejection of the resistance to fascism led by General Charles De Gaulle. Wolton claims that history is written by the winners, and that was why the French right-wing was declared guilty of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. "The illusion had to be kept alive ... that Vichy was an unfortunate parenthesis in the glorious history of France.... It's a cycle of our history which is ending today."

That is to say that Sarkozy's victory is against the nation-state, in favor of global empire, or, as Lyndon LaRouche put it: "Vichy was France kissing the ass of Hitler."