{"id":2766,"date":"2003-02-06T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2003-02-07T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/pile-on-the-french\/"},"modified":"2003-02-06T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2003-02-07T04:05:05","slug":"pile-on-the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/06\/pile-on-the-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Pile-on the French"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt’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<\/a> at WSJ.com (requires a sub):<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Sullivan has his say in The Anglosphere vs Saddam<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Mark Steyn soberly warns that France is no Eurowimp:<\/a><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Pile-on the French”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-IC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}