France's new foreign minister

Nicolas Sarkozy has named his cabinet and it includes Bernard Kouchner:

The new Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, 67, is a Socialist famous for having founded the aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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Mr Kouchner's pro-American line should fit in well with Mr Sarkozy's thinking, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt reports. He was one of the few French politicians to support the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, on the grounds that it would topple Saddam Hussein.

Here is the profile of Kouchner by Caroline Wyatt:

The humanitarian activist and former Health Minister Bernard Kouchner is widely admired in France, not least for his passionate, often outspoken declarations on human rights and the need to intervene to protect them.

A doctor by training, he co-founded the Nobel prize-winning Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in 1971 to put his beliefs into action, after working as a young doctor for the Red Cross in Biafra in 1968 during Nigeria's civil war.

Seeing children there starve to death fired in him a lifetime's commitment to the cause of preventing humanitarian crises and bearing witness.

See also the remarks of Kouchner's quoted in this post from December 2005 (scroll down).

Jeff Weintraub is interviewed on the consequences of Sarkozy's election. Towards the end of the interview Jeff also has some things to say about Tony Blair:

If Blair had been running the US instead of Britain, we'd probably all be better off.