Lots of the usual smack talking here and not a single person has even got close to the main point that Fox manages not to mention.
The proposed multinational force for Lebanon would be under French leadership. To me, that gives them a bigger say in the conditions under which it enters Lebanon than the US government and the peanut gallery at the AH O'club.
How many troops for a stablisation force has the USA offered? How about none at all. Why might that be? Because your incompetent administration has got you bogged down in Iraq while simultaeneously assuring that no arab state moderate or otherwise is likely to see the US as an honest broker are my guesses.
Originally posted by PonyDriver
I believe that the French live in fear of Islamic terrorism and wish to avoid being attacked, thus their current position. There really is no other logical conclusion to draw(beyond siding with anyone who hates America, or anti-semitism). Like Chamberlain, you can only dance with the devil so long before you get burned. The French are solving nothing, only delaying the problem and in the prcess exacerbating it.
Today's European(at least those on this board and those i speak with) would probably try to mitigate the actions of Nazi Germany by placing blame elsewhere....whether it's the Jews, England, or their old standby fall guy, the USA.
Stuff and nonsense. Hezbollah isn't Nazi germany. It's not even fascist italy. That you think a threat like this truly poses a threat of the level you are suggesting just demonstrates how little you understand it.
France arguably has a record of fighting Islamic terrorism better than that the USA. At least they actually manage to catch the perpetrators of attacks against them or even prevent the attacks in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_bombings_in_Francehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_KelkalConversley, the US has probably done more to encourage radical islamism in the last few decades than it has to constrain it, unless you're going to give yourselves a pass over your relationship with the Saudis, the Pakistanis, the Afghan jihadis, the KLA etc etc.
No western country including France really has an issue with a campaign against terrorism, only with the idiotic and counter productive way that your administration insists on conducting it. That global terrorism has actually increased massively since Bush declared war on it underlines this point.
Originally posted by Shuckins
The French will only support the Israeli cause when they reap some financial benefit from it.
If that's a veiled reference to the so-called oil for food scandal, I guess you missed the part where it was revealed that US interests were getting more lucre than the French, didn't you? The part where the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that 52% of all oil for food kickbacks were paid to US interests or individuals? Yup, I guess you missed it.
