To: nicmarlo
20 posted on
07/06/2007 4:31:17 AM PDT by
Fred Nerks
(Fair dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
And then, on the subject of Africa, there was Chirac’s abandonment of France’s diplomatic and military obligations to the Ivory Coast, with France instead effectively helping the Islamist insurgents to secure their territorial gains, this being pretty obviously done in punishment for the Ivory Coast having allowed non-French companies to bid on, and in some cases win, large contracts.
23 posted on
07/06/2007 7:13:42 AM PDT by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson