The french seem to have a "thing" for brutal, oppressive, mad, dictators:
ZANU PF, France have more in common than meets the eye
2/13/03 1:55:46 AM (GMT +2)
JACQUES Chirac, the President of France, is to again host his own Africa summit in Paris.
Only naïve or unknowledgeable Zimbabweans would have been more than astonished by the insistent invitation by Chirac to host President Robert Mugabe to a red carpet reception and plumed parade up the Champs Elysees.
Chirac, if he is awake and aware at the occasion, will no doubt sing "La Marseillaise" in person to Mugabe in honour to his anti-Anglo African hero. Of course this trip will be the usual "built-in" benefits of a propaganda opportunity, and for the usual extended family shopping trip.
This invitation to Mugabe is clearly an undisguised attempt by Chirac to give Mugabe another opportunity to pour out his anti-British diatribe and vitriol to an international audience.
At the moment the French are seen to be particularly enjoying giving the British another two-fingered gesture over this particular Mugabe-centred fiasco that Chirac has instigated. Chirac appears to get sadistic pleasure from giving petty slaps in the face to Tony Blair.
France’s solidarity and allegiance to anything pro-ZANU PF has been epitomised by not less than the French Ambassador to Harare, Didier Ferrand. He reportedly said in August last year: "We on the French side have done our part as a friendly country anxious to develop its relations with Zimbabwe".
Then last month he allegedly said: "France enjoys cordial relations with Zimbabwe."
The absence of any condemnation in these statements is indicative of France’s affinity to ZANU PF.
France is now confirmed to be like Portugal, Belgium and Greece — just another Eurowimp nation. These countries are led by vacillating, no-brained, soulless leaders that exhibit grand hypocrisy on all matters related to Zimbabwe, and on other major international issues as well.
Of course the decision by the government of France to entertain Mugabe in Paris is an abominable discredit to the French intelligentsia by their government’s efforts to curry favour to themselves. That they need to stoop so low for quasi-friends is indicative of the progressive demise of French values and morality, and their diminished relevance in international affairs.
At the last Franco/African meeting in Paris in 1998, 49 countries and 35 heads of state attended — including Mugabe. These summits have, in outcome result, been appraised as no more than expensive money and oxygen-wasting debate sessions or talk shops.
Notably, the French have been essentially silent, and tight-fisted with money on the aid and principle that they may have been properly given to Zimbabwe to alleviate AIDS, hunger, poverty, or to promote human rights and democracy. Many observers note that France has done less than little towards solving Africa’s problems.
In fact, the record shows that France’s intervention has aggravated the strife in the area that it chose to be prophet on, such as the Ivory Coast. France’s standing in a continent in which it claims a "special relationship" has evolved to be not less than an internationally assessed missions of futility that is commensurate with the ongoing typical "modern" retrogressive France.
For obvious reasons, like to avoid exposure and more global ridicule, the French have not shared transparently with the world what they have done to further prop up and financially enable their anti-west African heroes — ZANU PF. The same applies in regard to their hidden agenda on Iraq.
France keeps ensnaring itself in expensive and futile commitments in insignificant places, and at the moment is no doubt furious that four African countries have been moving towards the Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence. One formerly Portuguese and three of them Francophone. These countries are Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique.
The French, like Mugabe, are somewhat immune to disgrace so they have become impervious to the ramifications of their blatant hypocrisy, immorality, irrelevance and stupidity. Scandals related to corruption and adultery have surrounded the presidents of both countries — so they have much in common with regard to morality and ethics than some may be aware of.
Both leaders have sought re-election to avoid prosecution for not less than corruption. The question so far unresolved is that who is whose whore? After all, Paris is famous for prostitution of all kinds, and not much seems to have morally improved there at any level over the last 100 years.
To know more about the French’s history, values, shame and culture will explain a lot. One needs to know their durably embittered mentality to actually understand that this invitation to Mugabe was entirely predictable.
In the archives, to the eternal shame of modern France, there is the following:
Armed with their Burgundy-enabled courage there was their easy capitulation to the Nazis, and the quick adaptation of allegiance by a large number of their nationals to join the Nazi terror regime.
The French supplied the "land-grabbing" undemocratic Argentine government with Exocet missiles that were used in 1982 to kill British military forces when that country invaded the Falkland Islands.
Since not many countries of substance consider the French to be important anymore, the French try to gain importance with anyone who will listen and take their money. They are only seen as attractive to pariah or deadbeat states. To draw attention, France has become the haven of terror groups, misfits from all over the world for too many years to recount.
The French are always ready to condemn those that actually protect them from the insane forces in the world.
They have a visible exasperation at the loss of French as a language of international relevance at the expense of others, particularly English. They are aggrieved and envious of the successes of Britain and the United States.
France now clings onto an undeserved position in the Security Council of the United Nations. It is a matter of time, the way that it is going, before it becomes totally irrelevant and obsolete. As suggested by the Washington Times of January 24 2003:
"Chirac presides over a nation besotted with nostalgia for long-vanished military glory, an obsessive longing to be taken seriously once more, but he understands that France is capable now only of obstructing the efforts of others to order the world enough to enable civilisation to survive."
At the root of French foreign policy the following simple criteria apply:
Favour our businessmen and your human rights record won’t be a problem.
They are devastated by their diminishing influence in international affairs — thus they will do anything opposite to what the Americans or British want to do as a matter of first principle.
The only power that France has left is to say "no" at the United Nations.
Indeed, France and ZANU PF have more in common than may initially be apparent. Their affinity for each other is a natural event under the circumstances.
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