VOL. XXXII

NO. 47

28-AUGUST-1989

The Middle East Situation

For a nation with a philosophical penchant for logic and a foreign policynormally based on an objective - some would say cynical - assessment of nationalinterest, the French can be surprisingly irrational and subjective when it comesto Lebanon. One explanation of France's sudden decision to order an eight-shiparmada into the eastern Mediterranean is, therefore, simply that the French havea bee in their beret about the Lebanese Christians....