Re: France agrees to send 2,000 troops to Lebanon
- From: hummingbird <RHBIYDTNPPAX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:55:01 +0100
On 25 Aug 2006 01:46:08 -0700 'Tommo'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
Of course, France wants Iran to stop their nuclear programme as much as
anyone else. I think the difference between French foreign policy on
the one hand and, say, UK and US policy on the other hand is not so
much the stance it takes on the policies themselves, so much as the
willingness to do anything about enforcing them. ISTR that it was one
of the most reluctant countries to pass a security resolution
authorising military action in Iraq.
The French decision at the time may have looked wrong or even cowardly
but events since have proven it to be right and it was probably based
upon experience. Chirac & Co must be laughing every day about the
Iraqi mess that the US-UK have gotten ourselves into, only pausing to
watch the TV news reports of yet more death and destruction in Iraq's
civil war.
It's the US-UK who have become the gobal pariahs, not the French.
I would say it was game, set and match to the French on that one.
--
"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery"
"We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost"
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles"
....Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
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