Talking of the French, sounds like the US's grand coalition against terrorism will be short-lived.... European party-poopers start flouncing out as they realize they won't get what they've longed for --a great White-Christian-only crusade against the Arab scum:
In Europe, Some Scold 'World's Policeman'
Steven Erlanger New York Times Service
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Critics Decry Inconsistencies of U.S. Conduct
iht.com
Excerpt:
In an editorial, Le Monde wrote that America is also unreliable in the sense of appearing inconsistent in its choice of allies.
The United States, it noted, refused to help Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of anti-Taliban forces who died last weekend from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt.
Yet it considers Saudi Arabia an ally, although that "is where the financial support of the Islamic radicals comes from."
Even in Germany, one of Europe's most pro-American countries, there was concern that the allies had somehow handed Washington a blank check.
The newspaper Die Zeit said, "The defender against terror must not act like a furious giant," adding: "The fear of U.S. hegemony is as deep-seated as the anti-American sentiment that bubbled up predictably after Mr. Bush came to power."
Anti-Americanism is almost a reflex reaction among some left-of-center French intellectuals, and there has been a predictable outpouring.
To the cry that "we are all Americans now," Marie-Jose Mondzain, director of the prestigious French National Center for Scientific Research, writing in Le Monde, retorted: "I don't feel at all American, but to the contrary feel redoubled in me all the reasons to condemn a world that sings along with a catastrophic president, who defends the death penalty and who has only disdain for the Middle East."
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