Posted on 06/04/2004 12:37:12 PM PDT by Pikamax
European Press Review: America is Not Washington
European editorialists on Friday took a look ahead at the D-Day celebrations in Normandy and also commented on the resignation of CIA director George Tenet.
In its editorial, Britain’s Financial Times, urged not to forget the lessons from the landing of allied forces in Normandy to defeat Nazi Germany. In an unusual step, the paper published a guest commentary by the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. In it, Ivanov wrote that the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing should serve as a model on how to bring people and nations together to meet our common challenges. Only when we learn the lessons of history, Ivanov said, can we successfully fight the threats that appear. Hopefully, that will not be forgotten by the allied countries of that era when it comes to establishing stability and security on our planet, Ivanov said.
The French daily L’Humanité noted that the enormous efforts for the D-Day celebrations are meant to polish up America’s image that has suffered under President Bush. But, that isn’t even necessary because that would mean equating the whole nation to the politicians in Washington. There will not always be a Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or Condoleezza Rice, the paper said. Instead, the paper extolled the likes of William Styron, Bob Dylan or Michael Moore. That’s the America we love, it said.
Italy’s Corriere della Sera looked at George Bush’s stopover in Rome. This is a visit for reconciliation and hope -- a visit for understanding. Never before, the paper commented, has Bush needed Europe’s support as he does now to reinstate the moral voice of the West. To deny this would be a big mistake.
The Dutch daily De Volkskrant turned its attention to the mistakes of CIA director George Tenet. His resignation on Thursday, the paper wrote, draws a line in the sand. It was the intelligence services and not the president that were responsible for the mistakes in Iraq.
Austria’s Die Presse said Tenet should have resigned years ago. But his resignation now, the paper said, is a great benefit to President Bush and will not hurt the president politically. After all, the CIA chief was appointed by Bill Clinton.
Sorry folks the Europeans are such jerks...Maybe in their countries the people are not the government but here in the good old USA we ARE the government...You hate the guys in DC then you hate me as well and all the rest of the good folks who participate in this constitutional republic
I thought they said Bush was too moral? Now he needs euroweenie morals?
Absolutely, and the Nazi's would still be in Paris.
The EUrocrats do not consider Bush part of washington. ONly the democrats are considered comprable to the elitists of europe.
The EU only didentifices with teh socialists of the democrat party, in their eyes anyone else is just stupid.
They STILL are fixated on saying George Bush is stupd despite "misunderestimating" him time after time.
The EU assumes the democrats will just sweeep into power by just having every american read a socialist pamphlete.
The reason other nations fought together in D-Day is because the alternative would have been to perish together under Nazi tryanny. Had one of the allies taken a stand against Hitler when he was coming to power, there may not have been a Nazi Germany or a D Day. Of course, the nation that eliminated Hitler would have been labelled a war monger.
The socialists are the masters of doublespeak. Kerry who will make us secure by making us unarmed.
France who will make bribe deals with saddam to sell him WMD's but say Saddam did not have Iraqi WMD's. (they were FRENCH WMD's /s)
Europe has no clue how the real world works. They assume when treaties can be used with equal abandon when bullets run short. It probably comes from centuries of politicians being lined up and shot instead of just being voted out of office.
The French prefer Michael Moore to Condoleeza Rice?
How far they have fallen. It's really not funny anymore. It's frankly pathetic.
Hummmm? And all the time I thought they hated rich, fat, greedy, arrogant Americans imposing their decadent popular cultural on sophisticated Europeans. Guess I was wrong.
did anyone see the Issenhower tv movie with tom sellick? My question goes to the issue of DeGaul,
1. Was he really that delusional or was that just TV fluff?
2 What the heck was DeGaul doing anyways other than making demands and telling the Alies D-Day was not going to work?
2. Did the French people really cooperate that much with the Germans? (or was it more a Paris thing?)
Ah, don't worry...when the Islamofacists start beating down the door, we'll all be one big happy family again. NOT. Rush was reading from a Life Magazine article today, from only a year after WWII...and even then, Europe was back to their old habits of hating America.
This idea that Europe has always been in love with us is a joke. Heck, they thought the same of Reagan that they do Bush....and this was when we were still protecting them from the USSR. Screw 'em.
The only adult in world affairs is the USA. Could you imagine being a mother or father with a "must like me" standard for raising your child?
I'm trying to picture Michael Moore after stalking Adolph.
Nah, Moore would be granted full access and do a hit piece on Churchill or FDR.
Do those EuroPEEons think Tenet was the President?
And half of America Said President Bush represents them.
I am PROUD to have Bush represent me as an American to the rest of the World.
If they don't like what they see, too friggn bad.
Re: Question No. 2
PARIS, April 17 (AFP) -
After the fall of France to advancing German forces in June 1940, a collaborationist government established at Vichy, in the non-occupied southern half of the country, began issuing decrees aligned on Germany's anti-Jewish policies.
At the time there were around 330,000 Jews in France, of whom 190,000 were French and 140,000 foreign, many of the latter being refugees from countries overrun by Germany.
By the end of the war, between 86,000 and 120,000 Jews are estimated to have been deported as a result of Vichy collaboration, including thousands of children.
More than 75,000 Jews died. None of the children returned.
Following are the main events:
- September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany on September 3.
- May-June 1940: German forces invade France. The French government flees south.
- June 22, 1940: An armistice is signed by World War I hero Marshal Philippe Petain under which the country is divided into two zones, an occupied zone in the north and a free zone in the south. A collaborationist regime is established in the spa town of Vichy.
- October 18, 1940: Vichy issues a decree against Jews in the southern zone excluding them from holding public office.
- March 29, 1941: Creation of a department of "Jewish Affairs". Jewish bank accounts are frozen and Jews are banned from owning bicycles, radios and telephones and from changing address.
- May 14, 1941: The first Jewish round-up effected by the French police focuses on foreign Jews. Three months later French authorities set up the Drancy detention camp, a few kilometres (miles) northeast of Paris, as a staging post for deportations to the German death camps.
- June 2, 1941: Vichy orders Jews to register with the authorities. Jews are banned from teaching in universities as well as practising law, medicine and journalism.
- July, 1941: New "aryanisation" laws provide for the confiscation and expropriation of goods and property belonging to Jews. Some 52,000 businesses were seized.
- March 27, 1942: A first convoy of 1,112 Jews leaves the occupied zone for Auschwitz.
- May 29, 1942: German authorities in the occupied zone order Jews to wear a yellow star of David.
- July 16-17: 12,884 Jews, including many children and old people, are rounded up and held at the Velodrome d'Hiver, a cycling stadium in Paris since destroyed, prior to deportation. Subsequently there are three convoys a week, each sending around 1,000 Jews to their deaths. A total of 41,951 Jews are deported during 1942.
- August 23-26, 1942: The Vichy authorities begin rounding up Jews for deportation. A few weeks later German forces occupy the free zone.
- January 31, 1943: Pro-Vichy militias are formed to hunt down Jews, free-masons and resistance fighters. The deportations continue throughout the year and until the summer of 1944.
- July 20, 1944: The last major convoy to leave Drancy includes 300 children. Paris is retaken by allied forces and French resistance fighters the following month.
Perhaps the French and co. should be more woried about why the USA does not like or respect them. (we know french wine (whine?) makers have reason to worry.)
Perhaps the French and co. should be more woried about why the USA does not like or respect them. (we know french wine (whine?) makers have reason to worry.)
Perhaps the French and co. should be more woried about why the USA does not like or respect them. (we know french wine (whine?) makers have reason to worry.)
so? They just cannot like America. This is anti-americanism with an excuse. What else do they want America served with? Ketchup, mayonaise, whore's sweat?
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