Andrew Sullivan: Memo to Europe- Grow up on Iraq

andrewsullivan.com ^ | 08/12/2002 | Andrew Sullivan

[Pokey78]

Pinging the Sullivan list.

[Black Agnes]

Ah, cmon, some of us want to see the frogs get nuked. It isn't like they haven't been asking for it or anything...I mean, Saddam *IS* their friend, just like Adolf was!

[Congressman Billybob]

Sullivan is a fine writer who gets right to the point. Europe can be as sanctimonious, hypocritical, and historically blind as it chooses. The French have developed such habits to an art form more precise than the making of champagne or cheese. But the bottom line is that their foolishness is simply irrelevant.

We have work to do at home and abroad. If they get in the way, they will suffer. Otherwise, they can stand on the sidelines and bleat likie bewildered sheep.

For the kind of work we have to do at home, click the second link below.

Congressman Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

Sullivan is a fine writer who gets right to the point. Europe can be as sanctimonious, hypocritical, and historically blind as it chooses. The French have developed such habits to an art form more precise than the making of champagne or cheese. But the bottom line is that their foolishness is simply irrelevant.

We have work to do at home and abroad. If they get in the way, they will suffer. Otherwise, they can stand on the sidelines and bleat like bewildered sheep.

For the kind of work we have to do at home, click the second link below.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column: "Good People, Naked People, People Who Are Wet and Wild."

Click for latest book: "to Restore Trust in America"

[Desdemona]

Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time in the company of a cousin who is Spanish and lives in Barcelona. She assured me that the people of Spain, France, Italy, etc., really do want us to deal with Iraq. Maybe not the governments at least not outwardly, but the people do want Iraq and the terrorist threat neutralized. I'm just going by what she told me. They are very afraid over there that they'll be next.

[Black Agnes]

Spain *will* be next. Bin-Laden made that *very* clear in his videos. Al-Andalusia will be returned to Sharia if the Moose Limbs have their way.

[Black Agnes]

ping!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I wonder what the French would do if the Eiffel tower had a plane rammed into it...

[Black Agnes]

Blame the US for making the terrorists mad and supporting Israel. (see, that was easy :))

[Ancesthntr]

I wonder what the French would do if the Eiffel tower had a plane rammed into it...

Surrender to the Germans, no doubt (old habits die hard).

[AFreeBird]

LOL... very easy... and I wouldn't doubt it in the least.

[dennisw]

bttttttttttttttttt

[KineticKitty]

Good article, good writer...

"Iraq? Stay put — we don't necessarily need or desire your help. The Middle East? Shame on you, not us, for financing the terrorists on the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority and Israel? You helped to fund a terrorist clique; we, a democracy — go figure. Racism? Arabs are safer in America than Jews are in Europe. That 200,000 were butchered in Bosnia and Kosovo a few hours from Rome and Berlin is a stain on you, the inactive, not us, the interventionist. Capital punishment? Our government has executed terrorists; yours have freed them. Do the moral calculus."

[Timmy]

I wonder what the French would do if the Eiffel tower had a plane rammed into it...

I was kinda concerned about a plane running into it on July 14, as my daughter and I watched the Bastille Day parade from the top and then all these military planes came buzzing by at eye level . . . 'Course, if they accidently knocked it down themselves, it wouldn't quite be the same . . . :-)

[BlessedAmerican]

Blame the US...

You nailed that one and it was easy!

[Helms]

Or the Italians, their beloved Leaning Tower of Pizza. Then again it would be their luck that the plane would tilt it
perfectly vertical.

[foreshadowed at waco]

If we do manage to remove Saddam and install a democracy in Iraq it will change the face of the Middle East. I believe that we will oust him, set up an interim government, and maintain a presence for at least a decade. Our military is still in Germany and Japan after WW2. I also bet that the Russians play a major role in helping to rebuild Iraq. I am terribly nervous about this war but we have a great team in charge. Thank God that the Dems are not running our mililtary during these difficult times.

[MsCynic]

Thanks for the ping. Good article. Hmmm weren't we JUST talking about this?

[southerngrit]

Good article - thanks for sharing.