My new favorite old ally

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

We can really use a little Sarkozy right now, him and his Foreign Minister. It has been a major pain to listen to the left crowing about how W has ruined our previously stellar international reputation. Well having spent a good chunk of my adult life traveling and living overseas, trust me we have been hated since at least the '80s. But you do need friends and right now France is throwing a brother a line.

The money quote is this:

France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes

Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and that major powers should continue their policy of incrementally increasing sanctions against Tehran while being open to talks if Iran suspended nuclear activities.

"This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran," he said, adding that it was the worst crisis currently facing the world.

A little help with the whole nation-building thing would be greatly appreciated and if Germany wanted to throw in that wouldn't hurt either. We could let that whole Old Europe thing go. Both of them have big problems with unassimiliated Muslim immigrants and they could really use a good example for them. No western democracy is helped by a victory for the forces fighting to restore the Caliphate and that may be a big enough self-interest. The French could certainly use a win.

The Dissident Frogman is guesting at Jules Crittenden's blog along with some other worthys. And reader Phillippe notes the 82nd ABn NCOs Op Ed got picked up.

Hello Uncle Jimbo:

I am not sure if you've heard of this, or if there is the same letter in a US paper, but some AB troops (not sure what rank) have published in the leading french daily Le Monde, a long article stating that the surge is not working at all and that reports of progress are pure exaggeration.

Here is the link.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-947957@51-943359,0.html

I would be happy to translate for you.

American French living in the Left Coast. Boy, somedays I miss Tennessee.

Vive le France as I have said before

 

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My new favorite old ally

We can really use a little Sarkozy right now, him and his Foreign Minister. It has been a major pain to listen to the left crowing about how W has ruined our previously stellar international reputation. Well having spent a good chunk of my adult life traveling and living overseas, trust me we have been hated since at least the '80s. But you do need friends and right now France is throwing a brother a line.

The money quote is this:

France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes

Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and that major powers should continue their policy of incrementally increasing sanctions against Tehran while being open to talks if Iran suspended nuclear activities.

"This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran," he said, adding that it was the worst crisis currently facing the world.

A little help with the whole nation-building thing would be greatly appreciated and if Germany wanted to throw in that wouldn't hurt either. We could let that whole Old Europe thing go. Both of them have big problems with unassimiliated Muslim immigrants and they could really use a good example for them. No western democracy is helped by a victory for the forces fighting to restore the Caliphate and that may be a big enough self-interest. The French could certainly use a win.

The Dissident Frogman is guesting at Jules Crittenden's blog along with some other worthys. And reader Phillippe notes the 82nd ABn NCOs Op Ed got picked up.

Hello Uncle Jimbo:

I am not sure if you've heard of this, or if there is the same letter in a US paper, but some AB troops (not sure what rank) have published in the leading french daily Le Monde, a long article stating that the surge is not working at all and that reports of progress are pure exaggeration.

Here is the link.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-947957@51-943359,0.html

I would be happy to translate for you.

American French living in the Left Coast. Boy, somedays I miss Tennessee.

Vive le France as I have said before

 

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