You are absolutely right.
We are teamed with France in the development and production of military weapon systems. e.g. the ALFS (Airborne Low Frquency Sonar) ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) system.
And will continue to do so on into the future.
Posted on 05/06/2007 9:47:08 AM PDT by Cincinna
I hope you are right. I just remember how hard France tried to make it for Reagan and Thatcher to deploy the Pershings and all the other stuff that it took to break the knees of the bad guys in the Cold War.
I like the idea of having a day off for the election. I don't support the day of reflection (due to obvious First Amendment issues), but I support the idea of making the biannual federal election a federal holiday. France recently had something on the order of 85% turnout for the first round! And this round is estimated at >75%. Those numbers put US elections to shame.
Well, well, well. Isn’t this a nice surprise. I hope he’s able to push through his agenda.
>>a ultra right anti-semitic
The ultra right is about where Rudy is.<<
Aha - the French left/right scale - thanks.
Sarko succeeded in knocking the Ultra Right, neo-Nazi , racist and anti-Semitic Jean-Marie le Pen out of French politics once and for all.
For that alone he deserves to be congratulated.
I think that it is wrong to characterize Sarkozy as “right wing”... unless you are working for the NYSlimes or some European media organization. Sarkozy holds positions on most issues MUCH like GUILIANI.
He is much more concerned that France recover some respect in the world, whereas the previous governments were striving merely to serve as a “counterweight to the United States”... and thereby became predictable, and no longer relevant.
His economic policies are at least somewhat conservative, but France today is in much worse a position than America was in 1980. It took Reagan and the FED six HARD years to manage a recovery that was clear ... and we didn’t have the MUSLIM “immigrant” problem that Sarko has.
He’s going to need a lot of support, luck and prayer to reverse the damage that the last two decades have done to France. I’m not real optimistic he can do the trick, especially with the EU restrictions that France doesn’t have full say in changing.
Not even addressing how Kyoto and Kyoto-follow-up is going to destroy world wide economies, too... aargh... he’s got a tough roe to hoe.
We began emerging from socialism in 1980 w/Reagan, then came 1992 and Newt’s Contract. In the old USSR they had a saying : we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. In a dynamic and fiercely competitive world market, socialism is a dead elephant on your back.
Perhaps it took the AIRBUST fiasco to finally wake the french up, as the muslim floodwaters keep rising, that their SYSTEM of socialsm isn’t working. Their jealosy for the superior US free enterprise system(winners WIN and losers LOSE)is nothing more than a lazy man’s excuse not to GET WITH IT. Frenchie...say hello to darWIN...
>>Sarko succeeded in knocking the Ultra Right, neo-Nazi , racist and anti-Semitic Jean-Marie le Pen out of French politics once and for all.
For that alone he deserves to be congratulated.<<
Aha -I was thinking of Le Pen - thank you.
You are absolutely right.
We are teamed with France in the development and production of military weapon systems. e.g. the ALFS (Airborne Low Frquency Sonar) ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) system.
And will continue to do so on into the future.
He’s virulently anti-American.
“Reminds me of Monk!”
Not Monk (Tony Shaloub) so much, but “Nathan Petrelli” (Adrian Pasdar), of the series “Heroes”. Only Nathan, in the five-years-in-the-future episode, turns out to be “Sylar”, who can cloak people’s minds, so he APPEARS to be Nathan.
Some women are worse than useless on any public policy issue. Click below for proof.
Congressman Billybob
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Down with the Royalists! Up with the Republic!
The French people probably do not hate us. The (old) government of France and the leftist French press hate us. The French people like most Americans are sheep.
re: your photo..... was is a former governor who coined the term “effete snob”
That picture seems to define the term
BTW..... new tagline
Its France. I thought the first to concede wins, something about being therefore more qualified to conduct foreign affairs.
There are a few conservative freepers that live in France. But the majority of the French still hate us that is true.
I still don’t like France.
It's all a matter of degree. Federal and local government spends a combined 40% of our GDP. The United States is a socialist country. Some amount of socialism is good, but there comes a point where too much is destructive.
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