#2
Let me get this straight, if I can, the FRENCH are complaining to NATO about a lack of support and follow through on a bombing campaign in a Middle Eastern Country....
It boggles the mind, the FRENCH are the new tough guys of NATO.
Either they're coming out of their hibernation or our administration has sunk so low the Brie and Wine Crowd on Avenue Foch seem like tough guys.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
04/13/2011 20:55 Comments ||
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#3
"Either they're coming out of their hibernation or our administration has sunk so low the Brie and Wine Crowd on Avenue Foch seem like tough guys."
I'll take Door #2, Bill.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
04/13/2011 21:26 Comments ||
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#4
France has been doing this kind of thing for ages -- look at their little adventure in post-colonialism in the Ivory Coast, which they got the UN put its name on.
#5
Being cynical, I think the French felt it was time for those "things" they keep in cages over at the Foreign Legion barracks needed some fresh air and a walk so they sent them to the Cote D'Ivore.
As for Libya, that really neat attack aircraft the French are marketing is a 20 year old design so the bombing campaign is not a satellite of the Paris Air Show. I think the French got a conscience transplant when Villapaine got his walking papers. They do seem to "care" about what's happening in Libya.
Too bad they didn't "care" about Iraq.
I am still amazed the Avenue D'Marshall Foch crowd is all lined up at the pier waving hankies and cheering their boys on.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
04/13/2011 22:50 Comments ||
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[Al Jazeera] Tunisian colonists being held in a compound on the Italian island of Lampedusa have rioted after a controversial deal struck between Rome and Tunis last week paved the way for their deportation.
Some of the colonists shouted "Freedom! Freedom!" at the centre where hundreds are being held. Other migrants started a small fire on Monday which was quickly put out by the fire brigade, local media reported, and dozens decamped the enclosure.
Several of the escapees later returned to the colonist detention centre.
Under the deal, Italy agreed to grant six-month residence permits to colonists who arrived before April 5, while Tunisia agreed to the deportation of anyone arriving after that date.
Lampedusa measures just 20sq km and is closer to North Africa than to mainland Italy. More than 25,000 colonists have arrived in fishing boats from North Africa since the start of the year and most have been moved to detention centres on the Italian mainland.
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Posted by: Fred ||
04/13/2011 00:00 ||
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