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To: Tommaso who wrote (40850)	3/27/2005 3:14:13 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206321

Tommaso, As per your plaint, "I can't help it if conceited sadists do not like me." It's a much larger group than that, I can assure you. As per your later post, "It may surprise some Americans to know that on the whole the French view of things, to judge from the TV news programs and the newspapers is very close to the view of things in the United States as presented by the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the major TV networks. They follow closely what the Fed is doing and the effect of oil prices on the U. S.economy." I sincerely doubt that French Television is in line with the Wall Street Journal on anything. As for the rest, why would it surprise anyone to find that "the French" , or the institutional French television (it's still mostly state-owned and highly regulated for content, n'est-ce pas?), coming from a blue nation in a blue continent, would generally see eye to eye with blue state media ideas foisted on us by the NYT or the Old Media? "One thing I had not realized is the high percentage of north Africans and Middle eastern Moslems in residence in France. One can see why the French might not care to become involved in an invasion of a Moslem country. They tried to retain possession of one in the 1950s --Algeria--and it did not work out well, just as when they tried to keep Vietnam." Great analysis! The French aren't concerned with invading a Moslem country since their own country, due to their gallic insouciance (read: sloth & stupidity) is currently involved, very deeply, in a Muslim invasion on its own territoire. And they are losing it, inch by inch, day by day. In a country of 60 million people, they are facing an installed base of 6-7 million already, with a higher growth rate. France, with its boulevardier mentality, has never in modern times been capable of making a hard decision. As Tennessee Williams said in a different context, they are "dependent on the kindness of strangers." Tant pis for les francais, sans aucun doubt. Maybe the French will throw a "Sauvez la France" party and this time, no one will show up? answers.com Of course, this is not the first Muslim invasion of Europe, but it might eventually be the most successful. In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire which had displaced the Christian Empire headquartered in Constantinople, held all of North Africa, the Middle East, Arabia, and Asia Minor and owned a lot of prime Europe--holding Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia. Suleiman almost conquered Vienna, which would have opened the gate to the rest of Germany. Kb