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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (228)	3/18/2003 1:22:02 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

Was not the French Revolution "illegitimate"? I believe the Monarchy should be restored in France; the French common folk have had a rough go of it every since Napolean III lost to the Prussians. There are heirs to the French throne standing by. Let us rid France of the "illegitimate" 1789 rebellion-heirs.

To: epicure who wrote (228)	3/18/2003 1:38:50 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7834

Actually i disagree with you on this X ... while clearly it is the heinous crime of unilateralism for one nation to invade another, or to bully a few others into being its 'allies' in a hurry [somebody called the current set-up 'the coalition of the hard-of-hearing', quite apropos since the people of neither Spain nor the UK support things being done in this manner], it should not be out of the question for a true coalition of democracies to deal with situations exactly like that of Hussein .... the continual taking of indigenous land by the israelis, for instance, which is the prime cause of most unrest in the middle east - it would be good to think that we as a species could do something about that But only through the means of a reasonably democratic international parliament of democracies ... anything short of that, and the perpetrator becomes no more than another Hussein himself ... it is the position of our prime ministre that Canada not be involved without UN sanction, and i support that fully, at the same time i realise that the UN is far from perfect ..... there is such a thing as just and righteous war imho, and when one comes i would want my country to pull its weight in the effort There is also the fact, that with an effort legitimised by democratic action, war itself will be in many cases less necessary .... fifteen or twenty democracies together, armed to the teeth but still smiling and talking, could stand better chance of facing down the Husseins and Sharons without bloodshed .... not so the Bush IIs of course, that will take some evolutionary development or something