To: Eurotwit
This just in from the cultural idiosyncracies department:
France: "We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."
United States: "We are going to start militias. We are everywhere."
38 posted on
11/05/2005 8:08:44 AM PST by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: Unknowing
The violence, which was concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations but has since spread, has forced France to address the simmering anger of its suburbs, where immigrants and their French-born children live on the margins of society.
SEND THEM THE F^&*& HOME ALREADY!
40 posted on
11/05/2005 8:10:56 AM PST by
chris1
("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
To: Unknowing
>> France: "We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."
>> United States: "We are going to start militias. We are everywhere."
Therein lies the difference between the US and European thinking. I was trying to come up with a post saying this when I happened on yours.
Spot on observation.
82 posted on
11/05/2005 8:47:59 AM PST by
mmercier
(a long acquaintance with sorrow)
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