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2003-03-13 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2003-03-13 01:44 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We're witnessing the end of the "West". There is no longer a "Western World" composed of North America and Europe.

Now there's just the Anglosphere, old Europe and new Europe - with no common goals and few common interests.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-03-13 11:46:11|| 2003-03-13 11:46:11|| Front Page Top

#2 My inlaws have given up Perrier and French wine and that's really something because they are both from France! If Chirac can tick them off then he is really in trouble.

Posted by Sam W 2003-03-13 11:53:27|| 2003-03-13 11:53:27|| Front Page Top

#3 "ardent defender of a multipolar world"
Welcome to another 50 years of war.
Thanks, jack.

Posted by Dishman 2003-03-13 12:20:34|| 2003-03-13 12:20:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm french, and utterly disgusted by Chirac, but I won't give up Perrier and wine, mind you...
Jacquouille is a serial loser who'd love a nobel piss prize, Dominique is a poet with delusions about re-establishing French Grandeur, 2/3 of the politicians are anti-US by nature (communists, trotskysts, gaullists, neo-fascists,...), Saddam is the best buddy of three presidential candidates (ChevÃ¨nement, Chirac, Le pen), big business is drooling about future markets in Algeria, SA, Lebanon,... And everybody is afraid of the reactions of the 5 millions muslims unrestful community, but nobody will admit it in public. Same as before : we don't know where we're headed to, we're experiencing a unprecedented moral crisis, and we're in denial, period.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-13 12:38:06|| 2003-03-13 12:38:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember, Neville Chamberlain had the same universal popularity as Chirac now has in 1938 after the Munich Agreement giving the Sudetenland to Germany. Indeed when Churchill gave his famous speech against this betrayal of Czechoslavakia, he was nearly deselected as a Conservative candidate.

In 1940, Chamberlain was ousted and Churchill became prime minister. So fortunes and popularity can change very quickly. France and Chirac are riding high on a bubble of unreality. When that bubble bursts ...

Posted by A 2003-03-13 13:05:52|| 2003-03-13 13:05:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I wish I could take comfort in the fact that after the war we will give them their due, but Chirac is giving Bush such a thorough pounding he might be too busy wiping the blood from his face.

Posted by g wiz 2003-03-13 13:42:07|| 2003-03-13 13:42:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps the UN should move to France where it might be appreciated. Few New Yorkers would miss the UN and it doesn't bother France to have dictators running about. It'd be a short trip from UN offices in Paris to exile in the French Riviera.

Posted by Yank 2003-03-13 14:40:35|| 2003-03-13 14:40:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Prior to World War 2 the artworld was centered in Paris. The artworld should move back to France (I wouldn't be hurt if half of hollywood uprooted as well). Let them show the Piss-Christ in the Louvre and discuss it's artistic merits.

Posted by Yank 2003-03-13 14:45:56|| 2003-03-13 14:45:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a thought for the payback:
Multipolarism is the division of the world into opposing camps. France has been attempting to arm several of these camps with nuclear weapons.
In short, French Multipolarism is the antithesis of world peace.

Posted by Dishman 2003-03-13 16:29:09|| 2003-03-13 16:29:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Bush is so fed up with the French that he's about ready to apologize to the Germans for Normandy!!!

Posted by tcc 2003-03-13 21:53:16|| 2003-03-13 21:53:16|| Front Page Top

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