Yes, that would be none other than Bernard-Henri Levy, the "Oaf of Tobruk" who single-handedly brought democracy to Libya last year.
He is now ready for an encore performance. He has retained a film crew to record his high-level diplomatic publicity stunts as he lobbies all and sundry to implement his plans for the salvation of Syria. Hopefully the ensuing documentary, tentatively titled "The Oaf of Aleppo", will be ready in time for Cannes.
Writing in Le Monde today, BHL envisions a joint Franco-American invasion force that combines French leadership and intelligence and Yankee boots on the ground. The mission must by-pass the UN, he informs us, because there remain people in that institution who are not convinced of his towering genius.
The Franco American invaders will ensure that only rebels with "genuinely democratic ideals" will be given weapons. Perhaps he has learned something from the Libya debacle after all, where a year after liberation the country is wracked with internecine violence and is less stable than at anytime in the past 43 years.
That's a minor quibble though. When one is as overwhelmingly brilliant as the great BHL there is no need to allow oneself to be encumbered with triffles like "facts" and "reality".
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