It’s pile-on the French time, what with the offensive and clueless remarks emanating from Villepin yesterday and all. Chistopher Hitchens has The Rat That Roared at WSJ.com (requires a sub):
There is of course another France — the France of Petain and Poujade and Vichy and of the filthy colonial tactics pursued in Algeria and Indochina.
Andrew Sullivan has his say in The Anglosphere vs Saddam:
President Chirac also announced that his government will be sending 3000 advisors from the elite Force du Collaborateur Francaise (French Collaboration Force) to assist the Iraqis in collaborating with the Americans while pretending to be part of a non-existent resistance movement.”
And Mark Steyn soberly warns that France is no Eurowimp:
Let’s say Saddam has long-range WMDs. If he nuked Montpelier (Vermont), M. Chirac would insist that Bush needed to get a strong Security Council resolution before responding. If he nuked Montpellier (France), Iraq would be a crater by lunchtime.
All I’ve got to add to this is that one should never underestimate the French, for what they lack in strength, they have many times over in guile and cunning. Why do you suppose their neighbors hate them so much?
Nice one, mon frere.
It is to easy to have a go at countries who do not support America, America is the country with the most weapons of mass destruction in the world, and they want to do all for them self!!!
Maybe it should try to arrange its home problem, you should watch the movie “bowling for Columbine”! France has made bad things in history but they don’t deny it! America, when it comes to bad things….no one seems to care! what about pinochet, Nicaragua,Vietnam?? just watch that movie and you will see that maybe France is not that bad!!!
I love mayonnaise, truffles, and fried potatoes as much as the next guy, monsieur, but since Vietnam I’ve been tired of cleaning up after the French.
It was awfully nasty of us, bringing democracy and freedom of speech and press to Nicaragua, wasn’t it?
We really are such bastards.
Pre-emptive democracy at that. Oh, the shame of it.