Another French 'Exception'

Wall Street Journal ^ | 30 Sep 2004 | unsigned editorial

[docbnj]

Another French ‘Exception’

This week, the French foreign minister has taken that position a step further by conferring a legitimacy of sorts on the terrorists seeking to disrupt the transition to a democratic Iraq.

The Iraqi interim government has called for an international conference in Cairo in November to shore up its international legitimacy and clarify relations with its neighbors and the international community ahead of elections planned for January. What it got from France was more stonewalling, plus a statement that any conference should include representatives from among “those who have chosen the path of armed resistance” to the interim government and the occupying coalition.

[docbnj]

The French support dictators and terrorists, and (coincidentally) Kerry over Bush. They want apparently to give the terrorists a share of Iraq, so that nothing will ever improve. It's a dangerous world out there, and partly because of the suicidal idiocy of the French and their "collaborateurs."

[wretchard]

This may be the quid pro quo for the release of the two French hostages. It may be meaningless, but it will be a fictive hook on which the terrorists can hang their legitimizing hat.

[rrrod]

only one problem to declaring war on the frogs, as I see it, is that they would surrender too fast before we could give them a sever a$$ kicking

[bert]

One wonders what the money spent by the French government to buy jobs for contractors in Arab countries would have accomplished at home.

The French have poured zillions down a rat hole. The unemployment is still with them and the money is gone.

Their national treasure pile dissipates with no relief in sight.