France: Arming China Preserves 'Yin and Yang'

scrappleface ^ | 2004-01-31)

[dennisw]

France: Arming China Preserves 'Yin and Yang'

(2004-01-31) -- Allowing European Union (EU) nations to sell advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance, according to the French Foreign Minister who wants the EU to drop its embargo on such sales.

"There is a balance in world affairs -- a yin and yang, if you will," said Dominique de Villepin (who is a man). "There will always be iron-fisted regimes and there will always be oppressed people yearning for freedom. It's part of the circle of life. By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained. Besides, if we don't sell to them, all the Chinese money keeps going to the Russians, whose weapons aren't nearly as effective as ours."

While the United States opposes arms sales due to China's record of human rights abuses, Mr. de Villepin said the term 'human rights' is "open to interpretation."

"It's such a loaded term," he said. "Every time the U.S. wants to stop us from arming a dictatorship, they throw out that red herring."

Mr. de Villepin said, however, that France and her allies had learned something from the experience of selling weapons to Saddam Hussein while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.

"As your American Girl Scouts say, 'get the money before you give them the cookies',"

[nuconvert]

Insanity.

[BipolarBob]

Is the whole country nuts or just their government?

[etcetera]

"By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained. Besides, if we don't sell to them, all the Chinese money keeps going to the Russians, whose weapons aren't nearly as effective as ours."

France is the enemy. Nuke France - now.

[Dog]

The damn French will arm the Chinese... they are totally nuts.

[elfman2]

I think if France extends its yang to China we should cut it off.

[Dog]

Look at this quote..

Mr. de Villepin said, however, that France and her allies had learned something from the experience of selling weapons to Saddam Hussein while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.

"As your American Girl Scouts say, 'get the money before you give them the cookies',"

The pompous.... arrogant...SOB!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Unbelievable. Perhaps one day real soon their action will come back to haunt them. Hopefully, the U.S. won't be a part of Red China's aggression, nor will the U.S. lift a finger to aid the French.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

SET YOUR PARODY BITS! It's Scrappleface, for God's sake, and nobody named 'Haywood Jablome' is to be taken the slightest bit seriously....

[elfman2]

Symptom of a brain dead culture when its foreign minister looks at communist fascism and capitalistic democracy and calls the two “yen and yang”.

[Dog]

He admits they broke the UN sanctions.....and is rubbing everyones nose in it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

By selling military technology to China at a time when dictatorships are threatened by the forces of freedom, we help assure that balance is maintained.

This man is deranged.

[MississippiMan]

You know what's bad? I would've only been mildly surprised had this not come from scrappleface.

MM

[Dog]

I fell for it...LOL!

[Oztrich Boy]

I eventually realized that, but it really seemed so authentically French.

[nuconvert]

Absolutely!

[hedgetrimmer]

sell[ing] advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance

Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and the UN have been saying the same thing for years.

The bad news is they gave away a lot of our technology and our patent database to China when they were in power to "even things out". Bill Clinton has often said that the US is not going to be the "big dog on the block" anymore and has actively tried to make that happen.

[freedumb2003]

It's Scrappleface

Man, these people are easily fooled! I have seen bona-fide responses to The Onion f'rgawdsake.

[elfman2]

" ScrappleFace, the daily news satire site<.b>"

Okay dude, you got me…

[SpaceBar]

France's Foreign Minister is openly advocating selling arms to ideological and military opponents of the United States. Not just for the money but as a global military power balance destabilization tactic, by his own admission. Anyone who doesn't see the writing on the wall is a fool. France is waging a covert war with the US in the form of arms and technology transfers out of the western block alliance. They need to be stopped dead in their tracks now by whatever means necessary.