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2003-06-09 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2003-06-09 03:46 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The US should open up the floodgates and allow a bunch of French Visa's right now. Everyone in France worth taking in would jump at the chance. Let the rest ride out their socialist dillusions to the inevitable end. Taking their best and brightest is the best revenge possible.

Posted by Yank 2003-06-09 16:35:48|| 2003-06-09 16:35:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Thats allow the French to get US Visa's, not issue French Visa's which are only issued to dictators on the run.

Posted by Yank 2003-06-09 16:36:38|| 2003-06-09 16:36:38|| Front Page Top

#3 I love it - "We will relaunch the action after Pentecost..."

Bet the commies loved that one.

Posted by mojo 2003-06-09 16:49:57|| 2003-06-09 16:49:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve Den Beste has an interesting series of essays and letters from French correspondents discussing the strikes on his website.

His conclusion is that the weasels are headed for trouble, and that's trouble for the rest of us:

As long as the current economic policies there continue without major reform, collapse is inevitable. The longer it's delayed, the worse it will be, but there's no way of knowing exactly how it will happen, or when. There are gradual processes involved such as capital flight, brain drain, demographic inversion, and a rising level of radicalism and terrorist violence by trade unions. And there's always the spectre of France's disaffected Muslim population (who have been smuggling and stockpiling weapons) to spice up the projections. There's going to be a tipping point, and then things will change really rapidly and almost unpredictably. . . .

Consider how much the world eventually paid because of the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Then consider what the price would have been if the Weimar Republic had owned France's nuclear arsenal, and it had fallen into the hands of the Nazi dictatorship. What would happen because of the formation of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of France? Or a nuclear-armed People's Republic of Socialist France? Both with a religious zeal to spread the new French enlightenment to the world? I don't want to find out.

Posted by Mike 2003-06-09 17:34:34|| 2003-06-09 17:34:34|| Front Page Top

#5 One thing's for sure. After the Islamic demographic bomb goes off in La Belle France, you won't be allowed to use the word "Pentecost" as the call to prayer rings out from the mosque of Notre Dame

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-06-09 19:02:49|| 2003-06-09 19:02:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Pentacost will give way to Holocaust. France only has a chance if they start reform now, or it will be another Iran smack dab in the middle of Europe. I hope that we and the Brits are making contingency plans. It would be good to have Germany and Spain on our side for containment.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-06-09 19:49:00|| 2003-06-09 19:49:00|| Front Page Top

#7 "Consider how much the world eventually paid because of the collapse of the Weimar Republic."

Omigod. We're going to send the UN peacekeepers into France. The mind reels...

If the UN had troops in France, how would either side know when to retreat?
Could the French veto a UN intervention in France?
If so, would a NATO force of Poles and Latvians be within its charter?
If not, who would go? We could appeal to the North Koreans to assume neutral peacekeeping duties. Mmm, all those tasty French babies...

Nope, I think we're gonna have to let France implode.

There IS one proven alternative... but I don't think... err, TGA?

Posted by Mark IV 2003-06-09 21:35:55|| 2003-06-09 21:35:55|| Front Page Top

#8 M-IV - THAT was funny.

Posted by Scott 2003-06-09 23:19:03|| 2003-06-09 23:19:03|| Front Page Top

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