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Thursday, September 14, 2006

France Go Home!

15 comments:

Tecumseh said...: In his video, Al-Zawahri hailed "the joining up" of the GSPC with al-Qaida as "good news."

"All the praise is due to Allah for the blessed union which we ask Allah to be as a bone in the throats of the Americans and French Crusaders and their allies, and inspire distress, concern and dejection in the hearts of the traitorous, apostate sons of France"

Is Versailles still off-limits? Maybe if Chirac were to increase the jyzyah payments, that would do it?; 9/14/2006 8:04 PM
Mr roT said...: Chirac the jizyah!; 9/14/2006 9:21 PM
The Darkroom said...: We try and fuck up america's stupid little war for their sake and these are the thanks we get.; 9/14/2006 9:52 PM
The Darkroom said...: Oh no! They are burning a french flag ! Help ! Amend the constitution ! Call the foreign legion ! Honey, blind the children lest they peek at such ignominy !; 9/14/2006 10:32 PM
Mr roT said...: We try and fuck up america's stupid little war for their sake and these are the thanks we get. Not really for their sake, Pepe. Chirac et Cie. fucked up our little war so they could buy off the left and reform the pensions. Worked like about like a Renault burning Pemex. Al-Qaeda saw it as weakness and that's that.
I hope Sarko does the right thing.; 9/14/2006 11:44 PM
Tecumseh said...: Giudicelli said the alliance could act as a green light for al-Qaida and GSPC militants to operate together and thus raises the risk for France.

"The Americans have become harder to target domestically, so they are trying to widen the field of action and strike their allies," she said.

It's all Bush's fault!!!!!; 9/15/2006 12:10 AM
The Darkroom said...: Pepe. Chirac et Cie. fucked up our little war so they could buy off the left and reform the pensions

You don't think total lack of public support had anything to do with it ?; 9/15/2006 4:22 AM
Mr roT said...: In re: 'Public support' two points.

1) Big picture, You don't have to go looking for the war, the war will find you. Leaders lead.

2) France could have opted out of participating in the democratization of the Middle East without the absurdly moralizing Dominique Marie de Villepin's standing-o dog-and-pony show at the UN. Berlusconi had a similar mindset to deal with among the electorate but was able to do the right thing and not be beholden to the unwashed mob.

Chirac and his moral high-ground conspirators went that extra mile to kiss the left's and the pro-criminality ass hoping to get a favor in return.

Useful idiots get the bullet too.; 9/15/2006 9:48 AM
Tecumseh said...: In the nape of the neck, in the basement of the Lubyanka?; 9/15/2006 11:08 AM
Mr roT said...: That seemed a popular spot for awhile.

What do you think, AI? Will Pepe and Banksy moan when they turn the Lubyanka into a Westin Hotel?
They seem to Like Ho Chih Minh better than Walt Disney.; 9/15/2006 11:58 AM
Tecumseh said...: They could make the Lubyanka into an theme park for Lefty aficionados, I guess. There's a quick ruble to make there.; 9/15/2006 2:13 PM
The Darkroom said...: 2) France could have opted out of participating in the democratization of the Middle East...

JJ - talk of democratization of the middle east only occured when it became blatant that there were no wmds. At the time of the war, if you recall, saddam's scuds were hitting London in 17 minutes and that was the concern. France did not balk at democratizing the middle east - it balked at backing up a war that already made no sense (al baradei & blix had invalidated dubbyah's casus belli).

Today, democratizing the middle east is little more than a sound bite - no one really expects that to be an outcome of the war. Democracy isn't and never was the objective of the war.

Leaders lead
Chirac did just that - he lead us away from a total catastrophe which, 3 years later, has made the middle east, including iraq, a worse place than it was previously. I think Chirac instead was unusually
perceptive.; 9/15/2006 3:17 PM
Mr roT said...: Another point occurred to me on my commute, Pepe. You write We try and fuck up america's stupid little war [in Iraq] for their [i.e. al Qaeda's] sake and these are the thanks we get.

Are you implying that Saddam and al Qaeda were connected? But everyone knows that would be impossible, Pepe. Saddam was secular and al Qaeda is religious.

Don't you read Gail Collins?; 9/15/2006 6:12 PM
The Darkroom said...: jj - i was kidding.; 9/15/2006 7:32 PM
Mr roT said...: I know. Sort of.; 9/15/2006 7:38 PM

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