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International-UN-NGOs
Chiraq opens his yap and it's going to cost US big time
2005-01-06
Via No Pasaran:
Meanwhile, Roger Cohen adds that

Jacques Chirac, the French president, sees a chance to place the United Nations, rather than the United States, at the center of an international initiative that plays to the image he seeks to cultivate of Europe as peacemaker and donor. His government has proposed the creation of a global civil protection force to intervene in such emergencies, a form of intervention that could scarcely be more distinct from that of American forces in Iraq.

The United Nations, hurt by the oil-for-food scandal, battling the image of ineffective talk-shop, sees an opportunity to demonstrate its ability to coordinate an emergency relief operation. Its bureaucrats have become loquacious, indulged by European television networks with on-air time to fill.

Not all of this is edifying. 

Posted by:anonymous2U

#9  Helen....place this article in our file cabinet under the heading of "wet dream"
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-06 7:17:23 PM  

#8  Remember the scene in the Michael Keaton Batman movie, where The Joker dresses up like a mime to assassinate a mob boss? I can imagine Chirac as that Frenchified mime Joker, but a still from the movie would be nice.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-01-06 6:06:59 PM  

#7  Captain Ahab commanding the Charles de Gaulle?
Posted by: Raj   2005-01-06 4:31:15 PM  

#6  Now that's a GOOD analogy.

Perhaps he's more like Syndrone, because other than his obsession, he doesn't really have anything.

Thankfully he doesn't have giant robots or zero-point energy. Hopefully if he gets that far we can make sure he also winds up with a cape...
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-01-06 4:11:07 PM  

#5  FUCK chirac, FUCK the u.n., FUCK phrancistan(formerly known as france).
Posted by: Dudley Doright   2005-01-06 2:12:49 PM  

#4  Chirac has become a comic book villain, spending every available minute trying to scheme against the US. Does he actually run a country, or does he spend all of his time concocting bizarre conspiracies to try and undermine his arch-enemy? Is he like The Joker, obsessed with Batman? Dr Doom to the Fantastic Four? Kingpin, enemy of Daredevil and Spiderman? Snidely Whiplash?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-01-06 1:02:27 PM  

#3  that's cool. We'll just have them house the effort in France or somewhere other than here, and we'll have to look at restructuring the financing aspects...as it wouldn't be proper to have the blood money from the US financing the adventure. I smell opportunity here!
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-06 12:57:52 PM  

#2  When you speak of response to anything, you are talking ships and planes.... i.e.... airlift capacity, etc. Maybe it will happen in the E.U., in 10 to 25 years, but I seriously doubt it. (It will NEVER HAPPEN in the U.N. because Thugs cannot steal that money easily if it goes for airlift).

The E.U. has NO airlift capacity to speak of. Canada's use of commercial planes to move their DART group is another example.
Posted by: leaddog2   2005-01-06 12:49:52 PM  

#1  "President Jacques Chirac was reported to be growing increasingly concerned that U.S. aid efforts were designed to circumvent the United Nations in potentially damaging ways."

He noticed that? Wow, maybe he's not as stupid as I thought he was.
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-06 12:45:09 PM  

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