Kiss the French
Appy-polly-logies for light posting while life is consumed with trying to leave the ranks of the unemployed. However this Media Echo must be commented upon. Read it before continuing…
All done? Good. If this is true, then it could be a hit below the waterline for US-France relations. This journal is devoted to Absolute Truth – and currently there has been no corroboration from other sources of this article. The unfortunate thing is that it fits a pattern of behavior that has been established by the French over the Iraq Issue. As such it is difficult to not believe it.
If true, why? What has the USA done to elicit such behavior? Are the French people and government “different” then the rest of us? Do they not respect our shared culture, values and history? France was with the USA at the time that it was forged. France protected the USA when it was still in its infancy and could easily have been recaptured by the British. It guided American relations with Europe during the 19th Century. While much has been said about how much France owes the USA for “saving” it in the 20th century, very little has been mentioned about how France was there for the USA like a big brother during the 18th and 19th centuries. Without French assistance during the first hundred years of the Republic, America would not have survived.
Neo-cons need to be reminded of this before they bitch-slap the French.
So why? Why have the French betrayed America? On Sept. 11, only one French national died but three months later Richard Reid attempted to blow up American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Had he been successful 197 passengers and crew would have died, and the number of dead French would have been much higher.
Why can’t the French understand that they are viewed as infidels in the eyes of Muslim extremists just as Americans are, and that these forces cannot be pacified? America attacks its enemies and becomes safer for it. France collaborates with its enemies and increases the likelihood of attack against it.
France’s betrayal of America will not result in Americans planting car bombs in Paris or slamming airliners into Parisian skyscrapers. The French really have nothing to fear from America beyond the loss of our friendship and respect. But the French have lost something more important than that: they have lost their dignity.
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