From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 09:26:06 MST
"History keeps coming back, sometimes like a bad dinner. In case
you missed the '30s, you could experience it again last week
watching the Security Council at the United Nations, which begins
to bear an uncanny resemblance to the late League of Nations.
Listening to the calm, neutral, simultaneous translation of the
Security Council's proceedings over calm, neutral, simultaneous
NPR, one was struck by how exactly this attempt to disarm Iraq
paralleled the world's efforts in the 1920s to make Germany disarm
-- in compliance with that defeated country's obligations under the
Versailles Treaty. Both regimes swore they were complying. And
both were engaged in purely a paper exercise. ... After all the
speechifyin' was through, I clicked off NPR and came away with
the distinct impression that soon enough we'll be coming over,
and we won't be back till it's over over there. If then. Because
we can no longer turn our backs on the world. Because we might
have to stay -- as long as necessary. We've learned a thing or
two since the '30s. And even since the '90s. Unlike the French,
we remember." --Paul Greenberg
I suppose, for symmetry, the French won't be happy unless we give Iraq
the same 21 years to disarm that they gave Germany back then, before
Germany finally had it and did an end run around France's
"impenetrable" wall of border fortifications along the Maginot Line. I
imagine that the French, being French, and therefore never learning
from military history, think that because Iraq is not a next door
neighbor that they are therefore immune to attack.
I would warn them of the current calls in Britain by al Qaeda
operatives to turn Britain into an Islamist state under Sharia Law.
France should be getting a similar ultimatum soon.
Maybe it's just that France LIKES to get it's embassies bombed
'accidentally'.
I think that it is more likely that France sees advantage in forcing
the US to go it alone, thinking that the more the US attracts the
negative adoration of the masses of the world, the more likely it will
be that France can regain its alleged rightful place as the leading
nation in the world.
I wonder what the arab word for "Vichy" is?
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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