Viva la France
By haystack Posted in 2006 | Spotlight Blogs — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Our staunch allies, those on whom we can always depend, are at it again. Chirac calls for threat of Iran sanctions to be lifted , while Israel says 'a few months' to avoid nuclear Iran . All of this while the Venezuela-Iran romance blooms , and Chavez warns against Iran attack . What a full bowl of the soup du jour we have today, eh?
As I recall, France promised to back us in the run up to Iraq, and bailed on us at the last moment...turned out they were in just a little too deep in Saddam's oil for food pockets. And, they co-authored a UNSC resolution on the Israeli-Lebanese war only to reverse their position. Soon after, they criticed us for our position on the ACTUAL UNSCR 1701, but promised to send thousands of French troops in to fortify the French UNIFIL contingents already there (and failing), only to reduce the number to whatever it is now...200? 300?
Read on . . .
All the while, France was at the forefront of being firm in its convictions regarding Iran becoming nuclear. Apparently, they have been made to see the error of their ways once again, insisting:
"We must, on the one hand, together, Iran and the six countries, meet and set an agenda, then start negotiations. Then, during these negotiations, I suggest that the six renounce referring [Iran to] the UN Security Council and that Iran renounce uranium enrichment during negotiations,"
Just exactly how many hands can the French possibly have? Why do they continue to waffle and flip flop like this? Oh, wait, I think I know:
The French President is the first European leader to state publicly that a freeze by Iran is not a precondition for opening talks. The concession to Iran seems to be linked to events in Lebanon, where there had been concern that French soldiers may be targeted by Iran's proxy militia, Hizbollah, over France's previously hardline stance in the nuclear negotiations.Iranian diplomats say that there has been "positive co-operation" between Iran, France and Italy, which has also stationed troops in southern Lebanon and whose Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, announced that he would meet the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in New York this week. Diplomats in Paris suggested that M. Chirac's switch of position might be intended to protect the French troops.
It's all starting to become wearily clear to me. Just like the quiet, tidy little deals the French made with Saddam during the oil for food program, they have found some juicy little special backroom deals with Iran. Interesting coincidence, isn't it, that this is timed with Ahmadinejad being in New York? Or perhaps the sweetheart oil deal our buddy Chavez and Ahmadinejad just kicked off offers some new oil for something goodies for our friends and eternal allies? One can only wonder.
It continues to become increasingly clear that, while some of us are fighting for our lives and our futures and our freedoms, others are concerned with back room sweetheart deals, and will be on whoever's side brings them a little more lush and luxury; devil be damned.
France, along with a few other of our so-called allies, are helping GUARANTEE that Iran become the power broker in the middle east. They apparently still don't understand or care what the word Caliphate means, and given their continued submission to the ways of Islam within their own country and laws and school systems etc, they have also apparently missed the part about what they can expect for themselves when they accept the Dhimmitude they are building for themselves with each new piece of international diplomacy genius they seem bent on forcing on the rest of us.
How much money Chirac gets in the deal. Oil for WMDs part two.
France in any of our calculations whatsoever, they are irrelevant and will always work against us.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
because a local army garrison surrendered to a bus load of tourists.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
you can always count on them
Not to be there…
Would whoever is in charge of AQ for Europe go ahead and target France, blow up something… so that they can surrender and get it over with.
Thank you
but this is potentially more serious than mere frog-bashing. For a number of reasons Iran more than Iraq was an area on which France and America should have cooperated. The seeming agreement on a relatively harsh line was a symptom of the supposed trans-Atlantic rapprochement that was supposed to have occured in the wake of Merkel's election in Germany. I wonder whether this owes to Chirac's willingness to shift gears now might have to do with electoral politics and using the familiar card of anti-Americanism to help choose a successor (and in so doing potentially avoid prison time). Even if the motives are less cowardly and more banal, the consequence of a detachment of Europe from America on what is a considerably nearer threat to the former than to the latter could have grave consequences in the long run.
Counsel-General speak at a ceremony, swearing that we are allies and will work together. Maybe the diplomatic pouch was delivered late.
Consequences? The consequences are that whatever is done will be done by the U S and possibly Israel. The consequence of that is that the "world" will be furious and the American left will tip over into the void of insanity. At least some of the "world" will be silently relieved, not so the left.
Back to frog bashing. The French will send troops as soon as they can issue more white flags. And they don't want to send them too far, it's just a longer retreat.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Honestly, how much longer do we build foreign pollicy strategies around the fiction that France is an ally? Its embarrassing.
France was seen as a clueless corrupt player.
Today France is becoming a dangerous, clueless corupt player.