[petuniasevan]

Fascinating read.

The French will be "hoist on their own petard".

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...a self-deifying delusion prompted these French clerics to prolong the religious wars of the 1620s into the terrible 30 Years' War (1618-48)....

Oh, 'ere we go.

It's not enough to delve into Vietnam, Algeria, or WWII to find an excuse to castigate the French, now we gotta go back to the Thirty Years War. I'm surprised some of these neocon hysterics aren't mining Asterix for material.

[Just mythoughts]

Great article, never read this in the history books.

Interesting, so many threads of history ignored. Men using religion always seems to be a common theme in all wars, whether man uses God or tries to take the place of God.

The human mind is easily seduced and trained, explains why so many know that training from childhood is key to gain control.

We Americans, how blessed we have been, how much we take for granted, how numb our minds are and how easy we are taken in. Humans have not changed over the years of history, we are still our own worst enemy.

[skinkinthegrass]

GOOD POST & READ

[Mamzelle]

Great read. No day should pass without an invigorating heaping of scorn on the greasy Gallic heads.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Thomas Hobbes describes this. These events had an influence on the writing of Leviathan. France was once a Catholic nation and the ecclesiastical dominion of the Catholic Church, of which was just previously ousted from England.

France having long abandoned Catholicism, still pretends to exercise ecclesiastical dominion in international affairs, although they are powerless to enforce it economically and militarily.

Worth a bookmark...

[Happy2BMe]

Excellent read - reminds me of the U.S. Democratic Party (cira 1990 - 2002).

How history will tell the story:

A. The U.N. sent inspectors into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction - the same WMD Saddamn said he did not have. Forming new alliances, France, Germany, and Belgium, continually sought prolonged inspection times in their attempts to restrain the U.S. and Britian from attacking Saddam. The U.N. Council repeatedly ruled in thir favor.

B. Saddamn, while insisting (and convincing France, Germany, and Belgium) he had no WMD, at the same time threatened the U.S. and Britian to destroy them (WITH THE SAME WMD HE CLAIMED NOT TO HAVE) if they attacked Iraq.

C. The United States and Britian agreed that Saddamn had not complied with U.N. resolution 1440, had WMD, then attacked and removed Saddamn from power to prevent him (or other terrorists) from using them.

D. After the U.S. and Britian attacked Iraq, vast stores of WMD, chemical, biological, and yes - even some nuclear - were uncovered by the prevailing U.S. and British forces.

E. Saddamn and his two sons were tried before a U.N. tribunal and unaimously found to be enemies of minkind perptetuating mass murders on their own people of magnitudes and ferociouceness not seen since Adolph Hitler's actions created the word "genocide." They were summarily executed by firing squads for their crimes against humanity.

F. The Democrats in the United States had their worst election returns in the 2004 elections in that party's history.

G. George W. Bush was elected president for a second term in 2004 by the largest landslide in U.S. history.

H. Ditto for Tony Blair.

I. Hillary Clinton was defeated for his (grin) bid for reelection in New York State.