Posted on 10/13/2005 5:18:32 AM PDT by Hunden
With just one-fifth the population of the United States, France boasts the world's second largest contingent of diplomats, and its consulates and embassies number just eight fewer than the State Department's 260.[1] The French investment in its foreign ministry is likewise heavy and demonstrates the importance the French government places on French prestige and grandeur. Under President Jacques Chirac, French foreign policy has become increasingly assertive. Francois Heisbourg, director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research), summed up French foreign policy as "oppose just to exist."[2] Such descriptions are not entirely fair, though. While Chirac inherited a French foreign policy already tilted toward the Arab world, his pursuit of close personal ties to Arab leaders and his outreach to Islamists, rejectionist Arab states, and groups considered terrorists by the U.S. government is part of a broader strategy to increase French influence in the region.
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"Learn the Ways of the Weasel."
I'd rather eat dirt.
This puts them on the wrong side of history. They will suffer for it...
To sum up: Firmly grasp tiny dagger. Approach former ally from behind. Stab repeatedly in ankle.
I beleive that to the French being on the wrong side of history is better than not being part of history at all, poor things.
CUrrently France is embarked on policies, economic, political and diplomatic, that can only be described as suicidal.
Hopefully, this time, we will stand back an allow them to seize the fate that they so richly deserve.
Describes a country that is all style with no substance....sounds like the left in this country as well...
have no fear at all. in twenty or so years, france will be some 25% muslim. france will have a very heavy bill to pay for their cowardice and stupidy, which they cannot afford. on a side note about cheese eating surrender monkeys, can anyone tell me when the last battle of any significance was won by a french military outfit? ive asked this question of many frogs, yet have recieved only deafening silence.
France is no longer France.
At the current rate of legal, illegal Muslim immigration and coupled with declining French citizen birth rates; it will be a predominant Muslim country in the near future.
Already, in parts of Paris, Marseilles, Rhone-Alpes, and Strasbourg, between a third and half of people in their teens and twenties are Muslim.
Over half of France's prison population is made up of people of "foreign origin," as is 43 percent of its reform-school population.
Practically all of France's 1,200 mosques are funded by foreign governments. Of the country's 230 major imams, none is French.
France is about as useful as a sunporch on a submarine.
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