[On the off-chance that George Will reads my weblog (or anyone else who does not also read Uren.Dagen.Nachten. as well, which is where I picked this up) I leave you this link.]
[On the off-chance that George Will reads my weblog (or anyone else who does not also read Uren.Dagen.Nachten. as well, which is where I picked this up) I leave you this link.]
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As if there are intelligent people that don’t read Uren.Dagen.Nachten. That would be like not putting mayonnaise on your French fries :)
what a great article.
and the part about september 11th is so true. here, our town hall is lined with french flags on the rooftop (11 or so, I think), and they changed the center one to a US flag (for about a week, if I remember correctly). People also left many, many flowers in front of a statue in the town hall square (the statue is dedicated to the memories of those lost in the war).
Molly does cut to the bone, doesn’t she? It’s why I have a link to her pages at Creators Syndicate on my blog. George Will should be made to go back in time to fight in the gas-laden trenches in France, as my great-uncle did.
And mine.
I sort of have a thing about George Will, like I have a thing about certain pollens, and dust mites.
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thank you for that link.
I’m no defender of the coming war, but Ivins seems in her garbled final paragraph to be arguing that the French aren’t so much cowards as they are convinced that the battle for Western culture is unwinnable – an argument strangely lacking in moral force, akin to “This is going to be difficult; let’s just die instead.” What am I missing here?
Absolutely not. My understanding of that conclusion is totally different. She is saying, simply, that the United States is doomed to repeat history because it refuses to learn from history; while the French, having suffered from terrorism at home and abroad, have learned that weak enemies in the Third World are more likely to engage in terrorism than direct warfare. The message I’m getting here is, by causing parts of the Third World to hate us, the Bush administration is, in both the long and short runs, going to increase terrorism and decrease security, the opposite of what he is aiming and claiming to do.
I posted this link, originally, simply because I was getting sick of the cheap France jokes. (I’m still pissed off at France for ignoring international opposition and detonating their atom bomb under Muruoa back in 1995, though.)