Posted on 03/16/2011 8:15:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Japan's stricken nuclear power plant was abandoned for hours today, as soaring radiation forced emergency workers to flee for their lives and authorities were reduced to spraying reactors with police water cannons.
All 50 emergency workers who had been fighting to keep overheating reactors cool were this morning pulled back 500 yards from the complex as radiation levels became too dangerous.
And in an extraordinary attack, the French government accused the Japanese of losing control of the situation and hiding the full scale of the disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I don't know why you don't get it. The French are reverting to form, and leaving the field, right in the thick of the battle, while the Japanese, the Americans, and others stay behind to fight.
That's "leadership"?
It’s above his pay grade.
Actually this should have begun already. Hopefully it has.
Above his pay grade...
Above his pay grade...
“french government”?
Really, who?
Or is this some French professor at the grey poupon school of mathematical theories....
I’d be very surprised if it turns out this is an official and sanctioned response authorized by France. Pretty stupid to stick your nose into a situation where you are nowhere near, cannot see for yourself.
Japan is a big boy country, they are not stupid, nor do they need the hand wringing of the French, Brits, or Americans, etc...
In fact, Japan is probably just about the best country on earth to get it right. I admire them more each day.
Shows fully what Sarko is made of. All he can do is point fingers at the time of crisis.
Not to mention the assistance that Jean Lafitte rendered to the US at the Battle of New Orleans.
As a defender of Frog Honor you might be interested in the Battle of Bir Hakeim, where the Frenchies did themselves proud by stopping the mighty Rommel in his tracks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bir_Hakeim
Mon ami Pelham, you have earned a ride in my Renault Dauphine.
The Renault Dauphine, magnificent in its slowness.
I was always partial to the Deux Chaveaux.
‘BO has got to be pretty bad, to make Seasoned FReepers long for the halcyon days of Bill Clinton.’
Heck, sometimes I miss Carter, who was a fool, but at least served in the Navy.
Le Deux Chevaux is not a fitting conveyance for an historian of your stature! But keep up the good work and a road trip in the intrepid Facel-Vega is also distinct possibility.
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