Posted on 07/29/2006 8:28:11 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
>>Absolutely not.
The french will gladly become human shields to protect Hezbollah to keep Israel from being able to defend itself after being attacked.<<
Disclaimer: I was born in France (American Army brat - both parents from Georgia)
IMHO, The French are itching for a chance to show off their weaponry. I can see this ending badly.
Did you mean "Man chow?"
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
>>>The "fly in the ointment" that Hezbollah will not agree to.
>>>There is another fly, which Israel shouldn't agree for: the presence of the Lebanon army in the buffer zone. It sounds like a wolf - herd's supervisor...
>>>Too many flies in such a small quantity of ointment.
This is a bad deal. The French as well as the Lebanese army will shield the Hezbollah. This is kind of obvious. Why are the French so quick to step up to the plate? It makes you wonder. The Israeli's should request more neutral countries. Otherwise, the media will have a field day when Frenchies are sent flying.
Precisely what I predicted would happen........last week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673757/posts
post 239....
"That leaves France. Lebanon was French for a long time after WW I ...... France needs a role to play to regain it's lost status. France has a large lebanese population. France has been accepted by the GCC. France is therefore elected. "
Now the only thing left is to stop the rocket attacks, and secure them. Piece of cake.
Wow.. lets get Iran and Syria to contribute a peacekeeping force too... and then the neo-nazi's and Louis Farrakhan while we're at it....
The French can field some good soldiers despite our constant taunting of them as a nation. Their politics are screwed up, but their armed forces is what keeps them a power. They've served in Africa from what I understand. Mostly trying to continue French imperialism by attempting to subjugate African nations with brutal and unethical tactics that I imagine would shock the world if the socialists ever let it become widespread knowledge. I know a fella from Western Africa and his contacts have relayed horror stories of French atrocities in that region.
Anyways, Israel doesn't need the threat of the French running interference on their borders right now. France still has access to substantial resources and would be a major problem in resolving the issues at hand. The French would inevitably aid the terrorists via their financial ties with terrorist regimes and through direct aid to terrorists among the Lebanese.
All while blaming Israel for any violence.
I can only see bad things happening if the world accepts a French occupation force as legitimate.
How exactly will the Useless Nitwits make a terrorists honor a ceasefire?
French troops? French targets.
Good point.
Why are the French so quick to step up to the plate?
You'll probably laugh, but they say, it's because they're former colonial rulers of the country....
Same with the Turks, with that difference, that Frenchies inherited Lebanon from Napoleon, and had lost this heirloom even quicker than Algeria; and the Turks' Ottoman Empire ruled there for centuries. As a matter of fact, Syria also was their possession and, if I'm not mistaken, the same "pasha" (mandarin) quite successfully managed both.
It could be a nice permanent solution, eh?
I'm sure Hezbollah is quaking in their sheets. If having the IDF cavorting among them hasn't been sufficiently impressive, I sort of doubt they are much worried about the French. If the Lebanese Army worried them, they'd be holed up in Syria, or at least in the Syrian end of the Beka Valley.
I believe there are way more Muzzie/Jihadie voters in France than Jewish ones. You figure it out.
We should refuse, unless the Iranians and Saudis each pony up a match of 3 to 1 of any US dollars sent to the region. It was after all their stooges Hamas and Hezbollah that precipitated the fighting. Otherwise, nada.
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