Guess who wrote this:
It’s time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming our enemy.
If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war (making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war), and if you look at how France behaved during the war (when its foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, refused to answer the question of whether he wanted Saddam or America to win in Iraq), and if you watch how France is behaving today (demanding some kind of loopy symbolic transfer of Iraqi sovereignty to some kind of hastily thrown together Iraqi provisional government, with the rest of Iraq’s transition to democracy to be overseen more by a divided U.N. than by America), then there is only one conclusion one can draw: France wants America to fail in Iraq.
France wants America to sink in a quagmire there in the crazy hope that a weakened U.S. will pave the way for France to assume its “rightful” place as America’s equal, if not superior, in shaping world affairs.
It wasn’t anyone on Hawkins list of the Right Wing Blogger’s favorite opinion wrtiters. Not Mark Steyn, not me, nor anyone on the ‘radical’ right. It was Tom Friedman, exposing what everyone who has railed against France has been saying for years- The French only care about France, so it is time to quit pretending they are some sort of noble lot doing the will of the downtrodden.
TM Lutas
Did you hear that sound? It’s the sound of thousands and thousands of NY Timesbots shifting direction. By next week they’ll always have hated the French.
JT_Hunter
France will be the first Euopean Islamic state. I have to wonder how all of those French beauties will look with a bag over their head and body. Oh well I am not going to worry about it very long.