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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Mark Steyn：卡恩事件并不仅仅是一出性侵犯丑闻，从中我们还可以看出后繁荣时代的
西方社会中，政府官僚阶层和他们的管理对象之间越来越大的鸿沟
Mark Steyn: The unzippered princeling and the serving wench
May 20, 2011|By MARK STEYN
Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France
and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual
IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "YES, WE KAHN!" (
Monsieur le directeur was not participating in the game: The field he likes
to play requires more horizontal exertions, as even the deferential and
protective French media have begun belatedly to acknowledge.) In consciously
mimicking the slogan of another and very successful presidential candidate,
the IMF boss and Socialist Party candidate improved upon it – or, at any
rate, made it more accurate. "Yes, We Can"? Er, no, actually, you can't. But
yes, he Kahn!
A man is innocent until proven guilty, and it will be for a New York court
to determine what happened in M Strauss-Kahn's suite at the Sofitel. It may
well be that's he the hapless victim of a black Muslim widowed penniless
refugee maid – although, if that's the defense my lawyer were proposing to
put before a Manhattan jury, I'd be inclined to suggest he's the one who
needs to plead insanity. Whatever the head of the IMF did or didn't do, the
reaction of the French elites is most instructive. "We and the Americans do
not belong to the same civilization," sniffed Jean Daniel, editor of Le
Nouvel Observateur, insisting that the police should have known that Strauss
-Kahn was "not like other men" and wondering why "this chambermaid was
regarded as worthy and beyond any suspicion." Bernard-Henri Lévy, the open-
shirted, hairy-chested Gallic intellectual who talked Sarkozy into talking
Obama into launching the Libyan war, is furious at the lèse-majesté of
this impertinent serving girl and the jackanapes of America's "absurd"
justice system, not to mention this ghastly "American judge who, by
delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a
subject of justice like any other." |
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