Please don’t go
Over at Pajamas Media (yes, our thoughts exactly) Jules Crittenden figures that the best thing to do when staring at an empty net is to shoot first and think later:
You [Sarkozy] pointedly said that France’s commitment to Afghanistan is not open-ended. That sounds dangerously like catering to terrorists, and dangerously like the beginnings of disengagement, where France has barely engaged.
Open-ended commitments, let’s rock:
“I have made it clear to the prime minister and Iraq’s other leaders that America’s commitment is not open-ended,” Bush said.
A day after 180 people were killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad, the US defence secretary has told Iraqi leaders his country’s support is not an “open-ended commitment”.
How about The Donald?
U.S. troops are likely to remain in Afghanistan for many months, and not just to finish the job of destroying Osama bin Laden’s terrorist forces and his Taliban collaborators. […] Rumsfeld resists the idea of using U.S. forces for what some call “nation building” – the kind of house-raising, crime-chasing, checkpoint-monitoring missions that the Clinton administration committed the U.S. military to in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rumsfeld has criticized that open-ended commitment of military forces. [January 25, 2002]
The rest of the piece, if you’re scoring at home, is a mix of arguing that France is useless while calling for France to do more. Because nothing is more valuable than the actions of a worthless country (or person).
When Jules is wearing the tinfoil the messages don’t get received properly, but he’ll keep typing all the same.
It’s like blaming the Lakers’ playoff loss on Fletch.
According to Dick Morris, “convenience is a big factor when you’re a terrorist”. So “catering to terrorists” makes perfect sense. Sarkozy’s market-segmentation analysts have discovered a hither-to untapped market of “terrorists who want picnic hampers of fresh baguettes, vin ordinaire, and runny cheese delivered to their caves”.
Here’s another one. Mike Pence (R-IN): “There is no military solution for Iraq, and we don’t have an open-ended commitment there.”
[Sarkozy] pointedly said that France’s commitment to Afghanistan is not open-ended. That sounds dangerously like catering to terrorists
Well, there ya go, it’s just another French…
Waitaminute. Said what now?
Those two statements don’t make sense together. I’m not sure exactly how one might “cater to terrorists” (unless I’m bringing coffee and donuts to a bunch of smelly jihadis in a cave in Pakistan), but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include “running your nation’s foreign policy on the basis of national self interest”.
Somebody’s gonna have to explain to me how it might be that the best way to deal with acts of international terrorism is to occupy islamic nations for all eternity. Killing a few hundred of them a day, blowing up there shit and bullying their governments.
‘Cause while I may not have real insight into the “muslim mind”, I’m pretty sure all of that stuff’s gonna come back and bite you in the ass.
Hard….
mikey
I wished Royal won. I’m so tired of rightist I don’t even like them in other countries.
The Morris argument is about as close to honest as any of them have come so far. The rich powerful men are sending our children to Iraq to kill and be killed so the boogeymens don’t come here and kill the rich powerful mens.
Remember that the French (or, to be completely accurate, ‘Ze Fraaaaynch’) are probably world leaders in catering. While those bloody Englishmen were still working out which end of a cow to bonk, Ze Fraynch had invented camembert, champagne, and petit fours. So if there’s any catering to be done, it’s best done by the, sorry, Ze Fraynch.
If it was pandering, now…
Ah Jules Crittenden, a local hacktacular wingnut favorite.
Please note that in his day job at the Boston Herald, he had the honor of having the co-byline with Dave Wedge in the Boston Herald story on a Massachusetts judge that resulted in a $2 Million libel verdict,. Held up on appeal, the story was called defamatory, false and deliberately malicious. Meeting the almost insurmountable high bar required for successful libel cases against public figures takes a truly magnificent level of unprofessionalism. Jules Crittenden, take a bow!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/08/sjc_upholds_judges_libel_victory_over_the_herald/?page=full
Hysterical Woman said,
May 10, 2007 at 3:06
I wished Royal won. I’m so tired of rightist I don’t even like them in other countries.
amen, HW
Remember that the French are probably world leaders in catering.
ok, that made me laugh out loud.
as a person that holds a degree in french, i really can’t abide by articles like this. They show absolutely NO knowledge of french history before wwii, and take on that disgusting right-wing “if you ain’t agreein’ with us, you must be a pussy!” kind of logic that makes me want to vomit.
fucking arrogant pricks.
o..and for the naysayers….has everybody forgotten napoleon and his army?…i guess some americans must have secretly fought in that war, since the french are so cowardly and unable to fight.
Kathleen said,
ok, that made me laugh out loud.
There is no higher praise in this, or any other, world. I shall retire to my silken cushion, to sleep the sleep of They Who Have Made Kathleen Laugh.
as a person that holds a degree in french, i really can’t abide by articles like this. They show absolutely NO knowledge of french history before wwii,
As a person with three years of high school French and a moderate knowledge of French history (that should be “eestory”), I can’t abide these articles either. Seems some folk don’t realise that the world has more than just ‘Murka.
and take on that disgusting right-wing “if you ain’t agreein’ with us, you must be a pussy!� kind of logic that makes me want to vomit.
Hey, nuthn’ wrong with bein’ a pussy. Just sayin’. And it’s not logic, it’s more like a hairball like the ones my sister coughs up: lots of hacking and gagging, but the result is just a sad little dribble with a bit of soggy fur. No surprise that it makes you want to vomit.
Arrgh. The most frustrating thing about all of this is that Sarkozy is what the French call an Atlanticist–he’s very pro-US, he visited Washington D.C. during the campaign, he wants France to be more pro-Israeli and less pro-Palestinian and to improve relations with the US. The righties really do seem determined to sever all ties with that decadent old whore, Western Europe.