France gets Islamist threat

Reuters | 3/16/04 | Gerard Bon

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

"We have to keep calm. We are in a country which must not be afraid,"

I thought you were in France.

[BMC1]

Have the French raised the white flag yet?

[Betaille]

This is like when Germany invaded Russia in WW2. The bad guys turn on eachother... happens everytime.

[rightwingcrazy]

without unleashing draconian measures in the top "scarlet" level.

That would be a blue-ribbon committee to examine root causes.

[conservativecorner]

Why would anyone attack the frogs when they are in a perfect position to surrender already? The only holdup is that the surrender flags are not ready for every citizen yet. I can already picture the citizens of paris crying in the streets just as they did when Hitler over ran their POS country 60 years ago. Some dumbasses never learn. What can I tell ya?

[Clioman]

Well, this will certainly teach the French not to support the Crusader invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq!!

[MNJohnnie]

Note to Sen. Kerry.

Hmmm, seems a policy of appeasement and isolationism isn't keeping your fans the French safe from the Islamofacists. Perhaps it time for another flip-flop hmmm Senator? Maybe time for a new line to replace the "reckless, arrogant Foreign Policy" line in your standard anti-Bush tirade Hmm Senator?

[MNJohnnie]

Note to Sen. Kerry.

Hmmm, seems a policy of appeasement and isolationism isn't keeping your fans the French safe from the Islamofacists. Perhaps it time for another flip-flop hmmm Senator? Maybe time for a new line to replace the "reckless, arrogant Foreign Policy" line in your standard anti-Bush tirade Hmm Senator?

[Mike Darancette]

Actually France is in Afghanistan. Even reported today that French troops almost nabbed Usama.

[elbucko]

This is like when Germany invaded Russia in WW2. The bad guys turn on each other... happens everytime.

Hitler couldn't trust Stalin, Stalin couldn't trust Hitler. The French can't trust the Muslims, the Muslims hate the French. Europe will have an interesting summer.

[RushLake]

My first reaction to your comment about a lack of surrender flags was that they probably all had white bed sheets or table cloths, then I remembered that they are the French. Those items are probably pi$$ yellow. I'm conjuring a happy image of US troops advancing into defeated Germany at the end of the "biggie" being greated by the sight of joyous bedsheets and table cloths as I write this.

[tkathy]

This is going to be fun to watch. (I am disliking all religious garb more and more, no matter what religion.)

[BMC1]

And Spain wants to align itself with the French. Interesting......

[AM2000]

Aidez-moi, Dieu ! J'urinating dans mon pantalon !

I don't know French.. that's a Babelfish translation. Feel free to hit abuse if it inadvertently means something bad :)

[conservativecorner]

And you can bet that it will be America saving them from themselves once again in the future. How can they have such short memories?

[Sender]

Watch and see; someone in the French government will be screaming to repeal the headscarf ban, quickly! We must give them what they demand!

[RushLake]

"And you can bet that it will be America saving them from themselves once again in the future. How can they have such short memories?"

I think they and other pi$$ant nations in the world are like our own homegrown welfare clients. They want all you can give them all the time, and the more you give them the more in contempt they hold you. They can't save themselves, and they resent the fact that there is someone, some nation, that has the fortitude and courage to rescue them.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

I wonder if the French public will surrender as fast as the Spaniards after an AQ sponsored attack on Paris?

The French have more experience at appeasement than the Spaniards, but 100s or 1000s of dead French and further loss of American, Australian and British tourists may actually force the French people to reconsider their opposition to Chirac's reluctance in the war on terror.

[wjcsux]

Attack France, why bother?