Posted on 02/17/2006 1:38:22 PM PST by mgist
There is also in France a natural sympathy towards India: France is the only country which did not condemn India at the time of its nuclear tests (though France had just conducted her own in the Pacific) and we find in France an understanding of India's political emergence. Whereas in the US again, India is still often seen as the land of poverty, or at best of fakirs and maharajas.
Maybe, but on the other hand the U.S. is relevant for the 21st century and France is not.
Because it isn't accurate?
Kashmir has always been a part of India in the sense of the subcontinent. The subcontinent is presently split between three major nation-states, two of which contest the "ownership" of Kashmir.
India the nation-state is not coterminous with India the cultural and geographic matrix.
Might be something to do with France building and guiding Pakistan's sub fleet.
It really is a riot.
“Why do they not pay attention to France? Do they not know, as Marcel DePoopyierre once noted, that all the world adores the geographically-literate France? Perhaps they lost our phone number, or embarrassed by their own short-comings when faced with our inestimable French worldliness. They seem to pay attention to those brutish Americans. I guess the Indians did not realize, as Froufrou Le’Armpithair once famously chided, that Americans have little to offer the world and are actually shorter than many French. I cannot figure out why they ignore us, given how important we are…”
CLOUSEAU-------you stand corrected
Sounds like he'd rather have a world always on the brink of complete annihilation than American hegemony. We should just bomb them and affirm their fantasies.
I think it's a riot too. This is French propaganda live. Someone didn't give Jack a ceremonious welcome to welcome his heinous.
"Secondly, and most important, we need a multipolar world, now that the Soviet Union has stopped balancing America's hegemonic hold over the world."
What an absolutely moronic statement.
Yes, thank God the Soviets were there to keep the evil America in check all those years.
Yet, both India and Pakistan should consider this: cricket is a colonial game, a leftover of the British Empire. Cricket was played in the 19th century by rich, idle maharajas and upper class Indians, who wanted to look more British than the British and aped the English in whatever they did, whether it was hunting tigers, owning a Rolls Royce, or playing the 'gentleman's game.'
It was never a sport for the masses. It is a pity that after Independence, both the governments of India and Pakistan encouraged cricket. This South Asian obsession with cricket has had catastrophic consequences on the national psyche of these countries.
"Sour grapes" ping
1. Frances GDP as a country is less than our poorest states.
2. English is destroying French in terms of popular languages. French is deadas is their culture.Enjoy the muslims.
3. France cant be trusted even by the europeans that live next to them as they will sell their own mother for a profit.
4. France has'nt did well....anything since they were crushed in WW2.
5.France has an unhealthy obsession with Anglo dominance aka the UK and US.
6. Yes they are mostly shorter and weaker than most Americans.
7. They are trying to make a United States of France superstate called the EU but no one is buying it. We know France and to a lesser extent Germany will control it with Britain being shafted.
I forgot number eight.
8. Our Universities are much better than France's
I agree with all 8 reasons...LOL. Good one.
What the blink is a "philosophical treaty."
"Why is India giving France the cold shoulder?"
Becuas India thinks they are important and they see themselves as a world power that can snub other countries.
In reality they are an extremely arrogant with nothing to show for it uncivilized backwater, the true "buttock of the world."
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