COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The French Will Fight!, But Not Who You Think.

How screwed up are the French? There seems to be no end to their lunacy and perfidy. They screwed W and Condi when it was time to go to the UN for a resolution to end the recent "war", they will not disarm Hezbollah and now this:

Commanders of the French contingent of the United Nations force in Lebanon have warned that they might have to open fire if Israel Air Force warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.

Peretz said that nevertheless, Israel would continue to patrol the skies over Lebanon as long as United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 remained unfulfilled, adding that such operations were critical for the country's security, especially as the abducted IDF soldiers remain in Hezbollah custody and the transfer of arms continue.

Over the past few days, Peretz said, Israel had gathered clear evidence that Syria was transferring arms and ammunition to Lebanon, meaning that the embargo imposed by UN Resolution 1701 was not being completely enforced.

12 comments:

  1. wretchard said...
    FFE,

    You'll note the area overlooking Avivim, where the IDF found 120-foot deep bunkers and weapons caches plus huge land mines, was near outpost 65-2 of the Ghana Battalion, UNIFIL. UNIFIL was commanded by Major-General Alain Pellegrini of France.

    7/20/2006 07:05:25 PM


    Major-General Alain "déjà vu" Pellegrini of France is at it again.

    The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen."

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  2. Laugh if you will. The French will stand to a man and face the first bullet. (Or was that bidet or baguette?)

    It is no accident that reconstruction priority is being given to bridges leading out of south Lebanon.

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  3. Wow, I may have committed a faux pas. The French want bridges not for purposes of retreat; rather, French troops may need to be rushed to the relief of Paris.

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  4. Wow, I may have committed a faux pas. The French want bridges not for purposes of retreat; rather, French troops may need to be rushed to the relief of Paris.

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  5. Very powerful forces in Europe are manipulating the strings towards an agenda of Jihadi political ascendency, mostly at the expense the Jewish and Israeli interests. The media, the courts, the academia, and the political elites are all in on the fix.

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  6. mətušélaḥ,

    re: The media, the courts, the academia, and the political elites are all in on the fix.

    European and/or Israeli?

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  7. Ha! Allen, we have our own corrupt leftist whores, but comparing their political influence in yester days to what it is today, I think you'll have to agree that their days of glory are in the past.

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  8. Matt,

    re: Israeli elite

    The last episode in Lebanon was/is worrisome. Some truly bad ideas die hard, e.g. Land for Peace.

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  9. Matt,

    re: European elites

    No comment was made about these people because they have been a lost cause for several centuries.

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  10. mətušélaḥ,

    re: chess

    As a teen, I spent days on end playing. Real war gaming came later.

    Why?

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  11. Oh, I was wondering if you could teach me some moves.

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