That's actually a pretty ridiculous article, from someone who doesn't understand much about the political and social heritage of the two centuries since the French Revolution; and to see hope for French woes in a Libertarian movement is...hilarious. I have never heard of those people, and don't expect to.
In foreign affairs, they’d like to see France form its closest relations with democracies, not dictatorships.
Bawh. The irony is killing me. Seriously, make it stop. Who wouldn't like to see Western democracies stop messing up other people's political processes to suit their own economic and ideological interests? I sure thought so when Reagan (The man who called the Contras in Nicaragua "the moral equivalent of the founding fathers"? Whose administration declared Nelson Mandella's ANC a "notorious terrorist group"? Grenada, anyone? Honduras?) and Clinton (see the direct link between bombing Suddan and the growth of Al Qaida) were president. I would have thought so if I had been alive during the Bay of Pigs crisis and the war in Vietnam, and the whole of Western colonial history. I still think so now, when a war is waged within an ideological framework that is still colonial.
The French love a philosophy, or a grand ideal, and will quite happily follow it over a cliff in droves.
If they did, they'd be happy little libertarians. Or they'd vote Bush.
How can the French refuse the gift of democracy, freedom and little puppies America is spreading across the middle east if they're such idealists? Mister Australian guy must have failed Rhetoric 101.
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Date: 2006-01-09 11:52 am (UTC)In foreign affairs, they’d like to see France form its closest relations with democracies, not dictatorships.
Bawh. The irony is killing me. Seriously, make it stop. Who wouldn't like to see Western democracies stop messing up other people's political processes to suit their own economic and ideological interests? I sure thought so when Reagan (The man who called the Contras in Nicaragua "the moral equivalent of the founding fathers"? Whose administration declared Nelson Mandella's ANC a "notorious terrorist group"? Grenada, anyone? Honduras?) and Clinton (see the direct link between bombing Suddan and the growth of Al Qaida) were president. I would have thought so if I had been alive during the Bay of Pigs crisis and the war in Vietnam, and the whole of Western colonial history. I still think so now, when a war is waged within an ideological framework that is still colonial.
The French love a philosophy, or a grand ideal, and will quite happily follow it over a cliff in droves.
If they did, they'd be happy little libertarians. Or they'd vote Bush.
How can the French refuse the gift of democracy, freedom and little puppies America is spreading across the middle east if they're such idealists? Mister Australian guy must have failed Rhetoric 101.
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Date: 2006-01-09 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-09 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-10 04:40 am (UTC)it's tough to gauge the veracity of any story like this because i have no context for it myself. ;)