French Claim US Campaign Is Failing

Newsday ^ | 11/4/01

[11th Earl of Mar]

PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly half the French public believes the four-week-old U.S. military action in Afghanistan is failing, a poll released Sunday showed.

The survey by pollsters Ipsos for the Journal du Dimanche weekly showed 47 percent thought the campaign was failing, with just 17 percent confident of success.

The remainder of the 969-head sample, interviewed on November 2, gave no response or said the outlook was unclear. No definition for what constituted success or failure was given.

[freeforall]

Remember only a short while ago the Brave French were saying America will lose to the invincible(now invisible) army of Afganistan.Maybe they would generously form a vichy region for thier muslim brothers.

[mlocher]

thanks for the hegellian view.

please do not read the rest of the comments so that you will have a good weekend.

i like to poke fun at the french (and the germans, and the english...) but for a good meal and a good beverage, vive la france!

[freeforall]

The French have an obvious keen insight in military matters.