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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steeny who wrote (186)	2/24/2003 11:42:12 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: Steeny who wrote (186)	2/25/2003 1:57:15 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

The French have sold high tech fighter jets to Iraq, and they have made deals for oil field development...all while an embargo imposed by the U.N. as a settlement of the Gulf War has been in effect. There was only to be food and medicine allowed in, but France could careless how the Iraqi oil money is spent, just as long as they get their finger in the pie and are convinced they are doing the feel-good thing while chumming up to the modern day equal to Hitler. the Americans that are angry with France, have every reason to be.