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Yes it is crude humor, but it comes from frustration. I don't think anyone here truly wants your homeland to be the victim of a terrorist attack. Your government, however, needs to realize these people cannot be dealt with diplomatically. They want to rule the world by force and force is all they understand.

I know there are honorable people who squirm at the prospect of a hideous crime being committed in their country or abroad. What really shocked me here is not that people choose to vent their anger of frustration at my country by saying "Oh, boy, I hope there'll be a bombing". It's that they were ready to condone and even enjoy a terrorist act, anywhere, and actively wished for it.

As for the present French government, believe me, there a lot of things it does that enrages me. For example, I'd gladly see Mr de Villepin ousted by a furious mob, and then rolled into tar and feathers for having endangered an alliance that had survived 225 years - and, while we're at it, for being a grandstanding pompous buffoon too.

There are French officials you would gladly get rid of, like my President and Foreign Minister, because of their attitude toward your nation. There are US officials whose demotion would not sadden me all that much, like Mr Perle or even Mr Rumsfeld, because of their attitude toward my country. But Mr Perle and Mr Rumsfeld would not have a stauncher partisan than me if some punk terrorist demanded their resignation by threatening to bomb Washington. As far as I'm concerned, he who bombs Washington bombs Paris, he who shoots at an American shoots a Frenchman, he who wish terrorism upon others wishes it upon its own country.

As for fighting terrorism, I rather trust my government to be serious about it. We got Carlos after more than 10 years (that's something to tell to all those nutjobs who say it's "supsicious" that Allied forces have not yet capture OBL, by the way).

No Western government in its right mind lets this kind of murderers roam free. What I want right now is Western agencies sharing every bit of information they have, however vague, and organize joint operations to take down the bombers, wherever they are, and win this blighted shadowy war, be it in Spain, in France or in the US of A. Or better yet : in Spain, France AND the Us of A. As one of your great patriots once said, either we hang together, or we will be hanged separately.

They want to rule the world by force and force is all they understand.

Genesis 16:11-12
11. The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
12. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."