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Film:  The Ambassador

Strange how a documentary comedy fills the space traditionally done by investigative reporting.  The filmmaker aspires to be Borat and ends up doing a piece worthy of Foreign Affairs.

My biggest thought throughout the film as it really ends up skewering the French interest in CAR, is how you can re-look at the French opposition to the Iraq war and remember what all the neoconservatives were saying at the time:  the French and the UN were bought and sold by Saddam Hussein.  It seemed paranoid to the leftist opponents of the war - who cited UN and French disapproval as a sign of popular will against the war - now it just looks like par for the course in the way France handles their diplomatic affairs.

An interesting documentary film, surely worth watching.