[Akira]

Prior to the Iraq War those vile Frogs engaged in actions consciously calculated to increase American casualties...Frankly, I would not be completely heart-broken to see Paris nuked.

Sad. How far would you take this? Would you "nuke" every country on the security council that tried to prevent the Iraq war? Had we let the UN decide things, that could have increased American casualties in the long run.

Just nuke them all, huh?

I despise the French government and think the attitudes of much of their population is idiotic and contemptible as you say. But mass annihilation is your answer?

[quidnunc]

Akira wrote: Sad. How far would you take this? Would you "nuke" every country on the security council that tried to prevent the Iraq war? Had we let the UN decide things, that could have increased American casualties in the long run. Just nuke them all, huh? I despise the French government and think the attitudes of much of their population is idiotic and contemptible as you say. But mass annihilation is your answer?

I'm not advocating nuking the Frogs, but I am saying that if, after their attempts to thwart our War on terror, they get hit with WMD then I will not shed crocodile tears.

I believe the proper phrase is being hoist on your own petard.

[ClearCase_guy]

In the past, when France was threatened by a foreign power, we helped her. We did this out of principle: nations should be free and we do not want to see a free people enslaved by a foreign power.

I would hope that in the future, if France were in danger of being conquered by (let's just say) the Germans, the US should sit back and ask, "Will this make Germany strong? Will Germany threaten us?" Answers to these questions should decide our course of action.

Considerations about what would benefit the French people should not enter our thinking at all, IMO.