Posted on 11/06/2005 10:36:31 AM PST by cloud8
"I don't hate the French..."
My family hails from Alsace-Lorraine, mainly the Lorraine region.
France's history is overwhelmingly the story of our civilization and it just grieves me to see France fall. Last time, under Hitler, at least the western aspects were appreciated, art, music, literature, architecture.
L'Islam brûlera la France.
> But will the French people as a whole accept Chirac's terms of appeasement?
Key up La Marseilleise, please.
They will not. Such terms simply sweep the banlieues under the rug until the next time. When the French people rejected the EU Constitution, we were told that they did so for the "wrong" reason--fear of the Anglo-Saxon model. We were not told that they could look beyond Gallism or anything about national pride or a rejection of the status quo w/r the immigrant problem. Chirac staked his reputation on that vote, and both he and it were soundly defeated. The French people are not going to let Chirac give away the store now either. At least that is what I would like to believe.
That's what the French said when Hitler's army marched through their capitol city. Nevertheless, it really, really pained them to form the words, and it still does, apparently.
It's a sad situation, I'm not trying to belittle the French. They're just so... so... French, ya know?
I'm not trying to belittle the French.
Pastime for me. LOL!
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