But the answer was implied in that reference to UK. It didn't work, it was an error. It worked for some other countries, it didn't work in the case of France, especially because of the french stance toward Iran in 1980's.
What some people don't seem to understand, is that the politic in itself always adapt to the reality, and that the ideological stances always fail when confronted to the reality.
The "I'm neat so be neat with me" internal policy didn't work, we're now way ahead of the others to protect us against the islamist terror, because we've infiltrated their networks. The so-called appeasement that France is supposed to make in the Middle East right now is not appeasement in the sense of "take everything as long as you don't hurt us", but to compensate the totally idiotic (because led by the neo-con ideology) US foreign policy in this area of the globe. Bush is spreading oil over the fire, and we don't want to pay for them, because as usual, the US are not protected by a courageous army, but by 5000 km of water, and we're not. -BTW, if the US would have had a common border with Germany, no doubt that the panzers would have paraded in Manhattan, not because US soldiers wouldn't have courageous or are living in a so-called decadent nation, but because the US doctrine was as outdated as the french one in 1940- . We're fighting the terror, we participated and are still participating in Afghanistan, but going in Iraq is the best give ever done to the islamists. Add to this the amateurish handling of the situation (even not able to make a discret intoxication campaign with the WMD, and an unprepared occupation, because the spin doctors that they'd be greated with flowers), Osama is probably having an orgasm (if he's still able to do so) right now.
