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2007-05-06 Europe

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Posted by JFM 2007-05-06 15:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remember how optimistic everyone (here) was when whatshername was elected in Germany?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-05-06 16:40|| 2007-05-06 16:40|| Front Page Top

#2 That is finished. France is now to be on the side of freedom. I hope he is sincere. I want to be proud of my president, I want to be proud of being French, I want to be proud of my country.

JFM - stirring words. We wish you the best. France is a beautiful, beautiful, country with wonderful people. I hope that this is the beginning of you getting your great country back. Let's all enjoy the moment and celebrate with optimism for the future of freedom.

Posted by Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-05-06 16:43|| 2007-05-06 16:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Not that I want to hear any more about Chirac, but does his being out of office mean he can be brought up on those corruption charges?

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-06 17:14|| 2007-05-06 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice going, JFM. (The writing and the voting, both.)

Posted by Mike 2007-05-06 17:44|| 2007-05-06 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not sure a 6% margin represents a mandate; still nearly half the voters wanted business as usual.

Posted by Angusoque Ghibelline5564 2007-05-06 19:27|| 2007-05-06 19:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Sarkozy: 'US to lead battle for climate change'
"A great nation, like the United States, has a duty not to block the battle against global warming but - on the contrary - to take the lead in this battle, because the fate of the whole of humanity is at stake."

Indeed, JFM, the man represents a profound change in French politics.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-05-06 19:35|| 2007-05-06 19:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Angusoque Ghibelline5564, our Senate Dems say that the 50-1-49 lead is a mandate

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-06 19:40|| 2007-05-06 19:40|| Front Page Top

#8 As many as one-third of Algerians have told pollsters that they want to immigrate to France. And it is probably the same in all the failed states. Controlling frontiers is a must. Paradoxically, once Euros accept the refuse from those gutter states, Muslims immediately reject assimilation and build "dar-Islam" enclaves within Europe. Europe can only be saved if abandonment of the Islamic murder cult is openly promoted by European governments. Immigrant homelands are "failed states" for one reason: Islam.

Don't hang me on the "freedom of conscience" flagpole. We didn't accept that for Nazis, Communists, Baathists, Waco-Wackos, KKKlansmen, Anarchists, etc. Why treat Muslim cultists different from their co-equivalents?

Posted by Sneaze 2007-05-06 20:14|| 2007-05-06 20:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Well written, JFM, and even better thought. Your hope is our hope as well. And our prayer for our own presidential election next autumn.

We here are still working through whether Islam is capable of living in the same universe as the rest of us, Sneaze. Dave D. laid out our options in dealing with jihadi Islam some time ago, and it appears to me that if the current experiments in Afghanistan and Iraq don't work out, our only choices are abject surrender or climbing the scale of brutality.
link Zenster discusses those options elsewhere in today's pages as well, although his perspective is more marketing/business oriented than an engineer's analysis. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-06 20:34|| 2007-05-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#10 It's only a mandate if the New York Times sez it is.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-05-06 21:00|| 2007-05-06 21:00|| Front Page Top

#11 As much as we love to pick on the French, we really do want and need them to be on the freedom for-front of the war of civilizations. Not contently surrendering and helping the other side. I remain skeptical of Sarkozy's ability to pull France out of the death spiral of oblivion, but hope he can do it.

Good luck over there. You are really gonna need it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-06 21:37|| 2007-05-06 21:37|| Front Page Top

#12 The USDOD and the Armed Services all teach that nothing is outside the purview, duty, or responsibility of the Commander = Person-in-charge; while Universities teach that in business that everything in an organization is directly = indirectly, no matter how benign, the fault and responsibility of Management. FRANCE WILL NOT GET OUT OF ITS MORASS IFF THE FRENCH PEOPLE KEEP ELECTING LEADERS THAT PREFER "SAFE POLITICS" OVER HARD CHANGE. The essence of politics, as in warfare, is wilful CHAOS/ANARCHY - to handle the latter half-heartedly due to fear = correctness is only to increase the risk of failure and more chaos/anarchies. WOT > the "STATUS QUO" OR " --------- AS USUAL" IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE, inclusding but not limited to the realms of State-International Politics.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-06 22:21|| 2007-05-06 22:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Sarkozy's first test: Kicking some islamic butt in regard to those Car-B-Ques. :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-05-06 23:11|| 2007-05-06 23:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Well written, JFM. Bon chance!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-06 23:46|| 2007-05-06 23:46|| Front Page Top

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