France has placed so many of her economic eggs in the Middle East basket. From 1966 onward they embraced the Arabs. In 1973, they further advanced their military, nuclear, and energy trade ties with all the Arabs - who were aligned with the USSR and Russia. Today, French economic ties with the Arab world account for 30% of her total exports/imports. It was closer to 40% before Iraq was removed from this trade equasion.
The key to winning the war on terrorism lies with the total isolation of France economically, politically and militarily from her terrorist loving trade partners. To stop the Arabs and their bitter hatred of Jews and Democracy, it I must again reinerate that stopping France is paramout. This effectively halts the same crap at the UN.
Thanks for adding this to this interesting article. I think you are right, France in essence has been the incubator of a lot of the worlds terrors for a long time...
Yes, I have many friends who are Persian and was surprised to know they speak French. I think France has been acting somewhat like a modern Colonial power.
"What especially surprised Khomeini was that Cater and his aides, notably Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, rather than condemning the seizure and the treatment of the hostages as a barbarous act, appeared apologetic for unspecified mistakes supposedly committed by the US and asked for forgiveness and magnanimity."
If you read peace activists, liberals..they think this is what it will take for us to be loved and have peace.
I remember very well the hostage crises of Carter. I was at Ft Hood, TX and so relieved to see a real president take the reins and stay there for eight years. That same feeling was there, but to a lesser degree during the first Bush administration and then was totally absent until it was brought back by "W" in January 20, 2001. If a democrat is in the WH in 2005 we need to be prepared to see our rights destroyed and the level of attacks against us will increase ten fold.