[Rummyfan]

Steyn Alert!

[goldstategop]

France is a wonderful adversary and a terrible ally. Just ask the Israelis.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[sodpoodle]

Do you suppose President Guiliani will make Mark Steyn his SOS?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As it happens, I like French cheese

Me too, along with French food in general - one of the world's great cuisines, along with Italian and Indian, IMHO. As a tourist, I've also found the French to be quite friendly and helpful if you make even a small effort to speak French.

But the arrogance and the destructiveness of French foreign policy - toward both the US and France itself - are indications of a nation that is completely delusional about it's actual place and importance in the world.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Considering that it seems to be every prominentFRENCH Canadian’s preferred second nationality, from the Governor-General and the new Leader of the Opposition down, France is a faraway country of which we know little.

Notibly those living in, or from a certain province. The rest of Canadians living everywhere else in the country could care less about France, their second (and first in these days of multiculturalism glorification) preferred nationality being that of wherever they came from.

[GSlob]

"The foolishness of France"
Nothing new to see here, move along. That's how it's supposed to be, and has always been. About 470 years ago Francesco Gicciardini, noted thinker and historian, wrote "The French, being beastly and devoid of understanding..."

[beyond the sea]

FOOLISHNESS OF FRANCE

redundant

[xuberalles]

The French are simply a microcosm of Liberal lunacy. They're cultural drunkards who equate giving Saddam a nuclear reactor in the late 70's to wearing a hefty trash bag down a Paris fashion runway. Everyone deserves a chance to look stupidly stylish...especially when the twisty ties allow you to strangle yourself in the name of humanity.

"Liberals Love America Like O.J. Loved Nicole"
T-Shirt/Bumper Sticker
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[TexanToTheCore]

Ze French are not players. Their self proclaimed status as a world diplomatic power is largely delusional and has been since WWI.

[Levante]

‘une puissance musulmane’

Sounds suspiciously like:

"A MUSLIM PISSANT"

[knews_hound]

bttt

[finnigan2]

There is one line in Steyn's article that I wish he would have expanded upon, ie; "Yet there’s one area in which the French people are strikingly uncurious: the conduct of the nation’s foreign policy."

- I have also noticed this. From their periodic, unilateral military interventions in ex colonies in Africa to the French secret services blowing up of a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand to above ground nuclear tests in the South Pacific there is nary a protest in France which, at the same time, can turn out mobs at the drop of a hat to protest US actions of all descriptions.
As Steyn intimates, there seems to be a cabal within high French political circles which has a strong grip on such matters and organized resistance to their adventures never seem to materialize. I would have liked to learn more about why this should be but Steyn provides no details on the reasons for it.