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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (251717)	4/28/2002 7:16:32 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Some countries never learn. It is safe to criticize Israel, because they are a civilised people. Criticizing Arab terrorists is dangerous, because they might blow up your Parliament or poison your water supply. France and most of the rest of Europe is trying to take the easy way out- again... The question of what caused the French collapse has been central since 1940 to 20th century French historiography, especially outside France. France's civilian and military leaders have been excoriated for lack of wisdom and courage. From various angles, so have French interwar society(starting with Marc Bloch's _Strange Defeat_, written in 1940 and published in 1946) and the political system of the Third Republic. Defeatism, fatalism, prewar cynicism and appeasement, paralysis, and increasing dependence in the 1930s were all offered as explanations. In 1979, Jean- Baptiste Duroselle published _La Decadence, 1932-1939_, which dealt less with decadence than with mediocrity and weakness but which launched much discussion of decay and national decline. translate.google.com