[Chi-townChief]

OUCH !

[AlaskaErik]

The pity of France is, it deserves our pity.

I don't pity scum.

[AlaskaErik]

Not mentioned in all of this is the ticking time bomb of the muslim slums. It'll be a race to see if France is destroyed by them or the French.

[tioga]

scathingly honest..........

[Clara Lou]

Nice column.

[proxy_user]

"This is a country where last year one in five voters -- that is, 5.8 million people -- gave their ballot to a Holocaust denier.

This is the only unfair statement in the whole article. Le Pen was the only opposition candidate running in the final election, and thus the only alternative to continuing on with the existing regime. Probably most of those voting for him did not agree with his views, but just wished to register their dissatisfaction with the establishment.

[Darksheare]

"it actually conforms to every caricature about it: vain, cowardly, conniving, intellectually superficial, self-deceiving, politically and socially corrupt, with low moral standards (except when it comes to standing in judgment over the rest of the world), fundamentally anti-American and pervasively anti-Semitic. But I understate."

That sums it up RATHER well.

[ThreePuttinDude]

It has become a country that can be ignored,
which no doubt is why it screams the loudest.
No longer dangerous, it is merely obnoxious.
The pity of France is, it deserves our pity.

Now just substitute France with Democrat...looks the same to me....LOL

[KineticKitty]

Good article.

[conservative_2001]

Damn, that was good.

[mtbopfuyn]

Yes, but, the French don't see this.

[aynrandfreak]

But how could there be anti-semitism in France? Chirac himself asserted that there is none. (/sarcasm)

[91B]

Bump for an outstanding article.

[OldFriend]

No pity from this quarter.

[solo gringo]

Good post and to the point.My brother lives in france and he said the drug stores are yelling about the old people that died are no longer useing drugs and the store owners are begging the gov-ment to buy the drugs that the dead people no longer need.

[cfrels]

TOUCHE'

[findingtruth]

Where were these people's children as they were suffocating in ovenlike apartments? They were on holiday. And what happened when they got the awful news? ''Informed of the death of relatives, some [vacationers] postponed funerals to avoid interrupting the Aug. 15 holiday weekend, and left the bodies in the refrigerated hall,'' went a report by John Tagliabue in the International Herald Tribune.

Actually, their behavior towards their old folks compares favorably with our behavior towards our young folks. At least those Frenchies, according the the report, didn't actively do in their parents. However on this side on the Atlantic, we murder about one-third of our children by abortion.

[shhrubbery!]

Other countries confronted by militant trade unions, for instance, have broken them. That's what Margaret Thatcher did in Britain. Other countries confronted by a broken welfare system have fixed it. That's what Bill Clinton did in the United States

Bill Clinton did not fix the broken welfare system.

Clinton vetoed welfare reform bills, what, three times? before finally signing one at the urging of Dickie Morris. And only because he was afraid that if he didn't, he'd lose in '96.

But understandably the writer of this otherwise great article wanted to keep his model simple, and thus oversimplified.