[atlarge-discuss] Re: [johnmacsgroup] French Diplomacy: "Irresponsiblity, Futility, Vanity"

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

 Bruce C, and all,

   Interesting and accurate view here.  One that some of our
icannatlarge.org members should head.

Bruce Campbell wrote:

>   Snoofmadrune Update: French Diplomacy: "Irresponsiblity, Futility,
> Vanity"
>
>                                May 19, 2003
>
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> http://www.clicknation.com/snoof/archives/000120.html
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> Françoise Thom, lecturer at the Sorbonne, on
> "The choices French diplomacy made."
>
> http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?article=101
>
> English translation: http://watch.windsofchange.net/themes_59.htm
>
> > The first explanation for the behavior of our leaders is
> > irresponsibility – they believe that they will not have to answer to
> > anyone.
> >
> > This irresponsibility is driven so far that they seem to be surprised
> > at the consequences of their acts: thus they were not expecting the
> > flare-up of francophobia in the United States, convinced they could
> > persist in their provocations of Washington without risking
> > retaliation. The habit of impunity in internal politics ended up
> > giving rise to a disastrous foreign policy, as was exactly the case
> > for the late USSR.
> >
> > In the case of France, one must add futility and vanity, permanent
> > factors in our diplomacy.
> > [...]
> > We declare that France does not believe in the "clash of
> > civilizations," as if denial were enough to erase it. For greater
> > security, we go as far as abolishing the idea of civilization. This is
> > why we seek to deny at all costs the fact that France shares the same
> > civilization as the United States, by cultivating with some fanfare
> > our overflow into extra-legal zones. Anti-Americanism plays a central
> > role in this mechanism.
>
> Thom equates the foreign policy of the French with the determined
> obstructionism of the Soviet Union. Worth reading.
>
> The Snoofmadrune weblog
> http://www.clicknation.com/snoof
>
> bruce campbell
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