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The Death of France? Part IIBy Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2003 Welcome back to our symposium: The Death of France? In this second and final part (Click Here to see Part I), Frontpage Magazine continues to host a discussion with Jean-François Revel, one of the most famous French writers and a member of the French academy. He is the author of many books, including How Democracies Perish and of the recently published L’Obesssion Anti-Américaine (The Anti-American Obsession) which has been on the best sellers list in France for more than three months; Charles Kupchan. a professor at Georgetown University and...

The notion of the death of France is not, by any means, an absurd notion. To the contrary: it is an increasingly plausible possibility - or a reality occurring right before our eyes, according to some. The presence of a huge and growing Muslim population in France has fundamentally altered the identity of the nation. Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism have become endemic, as France chooses Islamicization and friendship with Arab dictators over friendship with America and Israel. The reports that France helped Iraqi officials escape to Europe were not surprising, because France is now the European leader of the Arab world...

It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the Frogs. After raging against America's Iraq policy for months, French citizens are suddenly saying that President Bush was right and their own Jacques Chirac was wrong, the Christian Science Monitor reported today. "Since they saw the rapid fall of Saddam's empire, the French are asking themselves if they hadn't perhaps been wrong in making themselves irrelevant to the course of history," admitted Dominique Moisi of French Institute of International Relations. Three weeks ago, 84 percent of the French opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom. Only 55 percent felt that way last...

Washington -- Alain Madelin has labored in the political vineyards of France for 34 years, including service in three French administrations with President Jacques Chirac. But now the conservative politician is trying to re-cultivate a vintage relationship he says Chirac has needlessly jeopardized by not supporting the war in Iraq. On an early April day here turned unseasonably cold, Madelin told a Heritage Foundation audience, "I wish to express my deepest regrets that your country came under French diplomatic 'friendly fire'" when France declined to support a U.S.-led military campaign to disarm Saddam Hussein's regime of its weapons of mass...

A Pro-American View from France | Date: April 4, 2003 Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Speaker(s): Alain Madelin Former Minister and Member of Parliament, France Host(s): Helle DaleDeputy Director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International StudiesThe Heritage Foundation Details: Location:The Heritage Foundation's Van Andel CenterNot everybody in France endorses the strongly anti-American line that has been espoused by French President Jacques Chirac. In fact, Mr. Chirac’s current policy on Iraq has given rise to a growing chorus of critical voices in France, who argue that by siding with the brutal Iraqi dictatorship against the United States, Mr....

HAILED as the new Joan of Arc on a crusade to stop France’s powerful unions holding the silent majority hostage over pension reform, Sabine Herold, 21, a politics student, has become an instant heroine to those who are fed up with seeing their country crippled by seemingly endless strikes. Shouting into a microphone to loud applause, Ms Herold delivered a stirring message to the tens of thousands of followers who gathered in the Place du Chatelet in the centre of Paris at the weekend, to hear her speak on behalf of her association, Liberté, j’écris ton nom. "How numerous we...

France's exhaustion with its unions has found its voice in a 21-year-old student, Sabine Herold, who is challenging the silent majority to revolt against the strikes crippling her country ... In the middle of the Iraq war, she and her friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of military action, a bold step considering the overwhelming opposition to the war in France. "There is a systemic opposition to America in France," she said yesterday.