Hey HB, good to hear from you. I think the reason the French hate us is that they are elitists and pseudo-intellectuals and Americans are cowboys and cowgirls...and our culture wins hands down and theirs is dying.
I feel sorry for France. I hope this thing shifts power to Sarkozy so he can kick some fanny and give the Franks something to feel good about. Sarky is an immigrant (Hungarian/Greek/Jewish) and a big admirer of Bush and Blair. He's actually the reason for the riots. The Muslims have demanded his resignation because he called the rioters "scum."
Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and said France is different because it "is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world." quoted from Instapundit.
18 posted on 11/04/2005 9:10:40 AM PST by RKV
HEY CHIRAC, EAT CAKE!