Machete-waving mobs loot and attack French targets after Ivory Coast clashes

AP ^ | 11/7/4 | PARFAIT KOUASSI

[cake_crumb]

It's France's next Vietnam! Which means we should stay the heck out of it.

[cake_crumb]

NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE!!

[infidel29]

"Should read: Machete-waving Freedom Fighter mobs loot and attack Imperialist Colonial French targets"

How about legitimate Ivory coast military are forced to use any means necessary to fend off Muslim jihadists and their French backers in a religious coup attempt.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or support the other side.

[cake_crumb]

"Or support the other side."

Yep.

[conrad metcalf 42]

Surely ther must be a diplomatic solution to this rather then using force. Come on, Jaques! Talk to them for a little while.

[txradioguy]

And sKerry wanted THESE guys to come help us in Iraq???

[Jim Noble]

Ivory Coast will ask the U.N. Security Council for action against France

Yes, France acted without UN approval. They didn't even pass a global test.

Chien mechant, Jacques!

[Jim Noble]

I meant, Chien méchant, of course.

[need_a_screen_name]

Courtesy of MSNBC and lulo_08:

[Richard Kimball]

Well, they lost a war to Greenpeace, so I'd be looking for a surrender soon.

[Stentor]

Ivory Coast will ask the U.N. Security Council for action against France

Support Côte d'Ivoire.

[Sparky11]

I love the smell of cocoa in the morning.

[Sparky11]

Faced with the confrontation with France, the Ivory Coast government reluctantly moved to call off its offensive against rebels

Obviously not scholars of French military history.

[Bon mots]

bump

[Da Mav]

The "antiwar" groups only mobilize when there is a chance to attack America. This is a perfect example of that.

[Pointblank]

Exactly, the only cambat capable fighting force they have in made up of people of other nations.
I am reminded of a famous quote on the subject...
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better persons than himself."

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

[nothernlights]

Watch the Cnn early morning news: usual footage of raving lunatics screaming anti US slogans in Fallujah last April,...then over to the Ivory Coast Story:french soldier seen laughing and talking with locals directing traffic. Not single machete in sight!?!.Do the Ivory Coasters have very very small machetes?

[dfwgator]

I seem to recall at one point the Ivory Coast was considered one of Africa's more stable countries. Then of course the Muslims messed things up with the help of the French.

[San Jacinto]

The "antiwar" groups only mobilize when there is a chance to attack America. This is a perfect example of that.

That's right, but it could be even more strictly stated. They only mobilize to attack America when a Republican is in charge.

There were no massive protests when Clinton was bombing civilian targets in Kosovo, and the few protests which happened fizzled when the press would not cover them.

By contrast, there was a huge uproar over a few civilian casualties in Afghanistan. The protesters are merely radical leftist whores and the press are their pimps.