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To: ManyMoose who wrote (74308)	2/15/2003 5:05:50 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No doubt the French have their own jokes about us ," Did you hear the one about the American tourist who ........." To each his own Sig

To: ManyMoose who wrote (74308)	2/15/2003 8:11:42 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>the gulf between the country of Lafayette and the country Lafayette helped create<< The country of Lafayette demonstrated that gulf over 200 years ago. He was forced to flee for his life because his moderation earned the enmity of the Jacobins, and was imprisoned in Flanders by the Austrians for five years until Napoleon liberated him. Speaking of Danton, it was Danton who seized Lafayette's property and put a price on his head.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (74308)	2/16/2003 1:16:51 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

From den Beste's blog, a translated French article from Le Monde: We watch him [Chirac (DL)] admiringly as he brings together Schröder, Putin, and others, walking above the abyss, while fearing he'll lose his balance at the last moment, knowing as we do how slippery it is. But we admire him, and do you know why? Because he's defending today the same cause for which your forefathers came to sleep under our white crosses: the refusal to accept the law of the powerful. His refusal of "if it's not you, then it's your brother." You who love simple ideas, can't you understand this? So. if he manages to change the inexorable end of the fable, he will have greatly earned our admiration. And also, some day, your gratitude. The "refusal to accept the law of the powerful". In other words, jealousy of the position of the US in world affairs. No matter whether the US is right or wrong, just that America is powerful, and France is not. So France must oppose the US. Beautiful indictment. Derek