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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?
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To: Steeny who wrote (186)2/24/2003 11:42:12 PM
From: David Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Thanks for posting the editorial, but it does little to counter the motives for French bashing, IMO. The following paragraph pretty much summed it up:

France has clashed repeatedly with the U.S. over foreign policy since the war. Charles De Gaulle infuriated the U.S. in 1967 by withdrawing France from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's integrated military-command structure. In 1986, President Francois Mitterrand and Mr. Chirac, then prime minister, refused to let American fighter jets use French air space on their way to bombing Libya. France's expulsion in 1995 of U.S. diplomats it accused of spying was another low point in the relationship.

The French obstructionists infest Paris, not the Normandy countryside. The author seems to have deliberately played on that, since his chosen poster child is not the object of Americans' ire towards France. The Chirac government is hardly even mentioned.
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