Friday, July 14, 2006

French Formula

Chirac condemns Israel. Yadda, Yadda. Ynet News:
President Jacques Chirac said Friday that Israel's military offensive against Lebanon is "totally disproportionate" and asked whether destroying Lebanon was not the ultimate goal. However, he also said that rockets fired on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are "inadmissible, unacceptable and irresponsible."
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Experience and finesse are needed to find a way out of the crisis, he added. Chirac blamed both sides for the current situation - but did not spare Israel. "One could ask if today there is not a sort of will to destroy Lebanon, its equipment, its roads, its communication," Chirac said during an interview in the garden of the presidential Elysee Palace to mark Bastille Day, the French national holiday.

How come no one ever quizzes Chirac on really fun questions; like how the French applied the alleged principles of proportional force to say - Algeria & Vietnam?

5 comments:

Chris Taylor said...

They did -- the French gave it everything they had, and lost. Then they hightailed it out of the country.

If the best you can do is only ever half as good as the other team, then you're always fighting proportionally.

K. Shoshana said...

Chris, the French razed Algeria in almost the same manner that Putin razed Grozny. The French were barbaric in their practise of colonialism - there only real rivals were the Belgiums. If not for the former rule by rape of the French would Vietnam have ultimately fallen to the communists?

Chris Taylor said...

Point taken, I was being flippant. =)

Gordon Pasha said...

Chirac. Shit. The same tired old ploy, throw darts at the Yanks and the Israelis, all the while kissing butt for big oil contracts and arms deals. Not to mention keping his own banlieus quiet, for a while. It's enough to induce vomitting.

Gordon Pasha said...

p.s. Chirac was an officer in Algeria. I think he has the Bonaparte complex, without the brains or the balls.