Tripe a la Mode (A French crapweasel lectures Bush, endorses Kerry)

The Washington Post ^ | March 12, 2003 | Charles Krauthammer

[quidnunc]

Look. I know it is shooting French in a barrel. But when yet another insufferable penseur — first Chirac, then de Villepin, now the editor of Le Monde — starts lecturing Americans on how they ought to conduct themselves in the world, the rules of decorum are suspended.

In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Jean-Marie Colombani, who wrote the famous Sept. 12, 2001, Le Monde editorial titled "We Are All American," gives us the usual more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger lament about America's sins: We loved you on Sept. 11. We were all with you in Afghanistan. But, oh, what have you done in Iraq?

This requires some parsing. We loved you on Sept. 11 means: We like Americans when they are victims, on their knees and bleeding. We just don't like it when they get off the floor — without checking with us first.

Colombani glories in Europe's post-Sept. 11 "solidarity" with America: "Let us remember here the involvement of French and German soldiers, among other European nationalities, in the operations launched in Afghanistan to … free the Afghans."

Come again? The French arrived in Mazar-e Sharif after it fell, or as military analyst Jay Leno put it, "to serve as advisers to the Taliban on how to surrender properly." Afghanistan was liberated by America acting practically unilaterally, with an even smaller coalition than it had in Iraq — Britain and Australia, with the rest of the world holding America's coat.

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[Travis McGee]

Phoque les Phroggies. What can they teach us, except how to collaborate with mass-murderers?

[Redcoat LI]

"But, oh, what have you done in Iraq?"

We won.

[GeronL]

They can teach how to surrender, but we refuse to go into the practice of surrenderology

[Just Another Lurker]

[McGavin999]

Do the french live in a bubbble? Are they really so ignorant they have no idea what's going on outside their country? Are they aware that most of the world is laughing at them?

[Fledermaus]

Now that's a keeper pic!

[Plutarch]

But when yet another insufferable penseur…

Had to look that one up. Apparently it means a thinker or intellectual (with the ability, no doubt, to ferret out the anti-Semitism in a Christian movie). The statue The Thinker is entitled Le Penseur in French.

[BykrBayb]

La bump

[BfloGuy]

We like Americans when they are victims, on their knees and bleeding.

Brilliant. I knew it but I couldn't put it into words. Krauthammer can.

[NYCVirago]

This requires some parsing. We loved you on Sept. 11 means: We like Americans when they are victims, on their knees and bleeding. We just don't like it when they get off the floor -- without checking with us first.

Ain't that the truth!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

No blood for foie gras!!

[kcvl]

Jean-Marie Colombani

[kcvl]

Colombani complains, George Bush "lied about the weapons of mass destruction -- the official pretext for the war -- as now publicly established by recent investigations." More rubbish. The investigations have established that the weapons have not been found and may not exist. The claim that the president knew so at the time, and lied about it as a "pretext" for war, is a malicious falsehood.

SNIP

Colombani decries the Bush administration's "return of protectionism." This (plus preemption) "is why John Kerry is, a priori, perceived with so much sympathy" in Europe.


Has no one told Colombani that the Democrats have made protectionism -- attacking everything from NAFTA to the World Trade Organization -- a theme of this campaign, radically reversing the Clinton policies of the 1990s?

SNIP

It is not John Kerry's fault that he is endorsed by a Frenchman. (Or by Kim Jong Il of North Korea, whose media have been running some of Kerry's speeches verbatim!) But Kerry has made the major -- indeed, only discernible -- theme of his foreign policy "rejoining the community of nations" and being liked abroad again.

[kcvl]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/8166576.htm?1c

[atomicpossum]

But then came Iraq. "The problem was not so much the war itself, but the fact that it was launched without U.N. approval," Colombani explains.

Due, of course, to Frog commitment to veto no matter what...but why worry about facts?

[Puzzleman]

Remember that Krauthammer blames Christians for the Holocaust. In his article, Gibson’s Blood Libel, he wrote:

The blood libel that this story affixed upon the Jewish people had led to countless Christian massacres of Jews and prepared Europe for the ultimate massacre -- 6 million Jews systematically murdered in six years…

This is the link

He undoubtedly knows the history of the Warsaw Ghetto episode and Hitler's 1938 disarmament laws for the "Juden". And Krauthammer wants to disarm Americans. In an op-ed piece entitled "Disarm The Citizenry", The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19, Krauthammer wrote:

Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. (emphasis added)

Shiver.

[verity]

Unfortunately, French Crapweasels are not an endangered species. ;~)

[Elkiejg]

FABULOUS PICTURE!! Please send to Rush, Sean and Neal Boortz.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Unfortunately, there are probably people in America stupid enough to think the French were with us in Afghanistan.