The American Spectator

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p> ETERNAL FRANCE br> Re: Jed Babbin's Once More Into the Screech : /p> p>Congratulations to Jed Babbin. In one sentence he has told the truth about the U.N. to wit, "It is a mechanism to constrain America, not to cooperate with it in defense of freedom." The majority of the general membership of the U.N, consisting as it does of Middle-eastern Thugocracies, African dictatorships, Asian dictatorships, South American Drug-lord-ocracies and effete West European has-been Socialist hell holes, not only is not interested in defending freedom, it is scared to death of it! Thus, rather than making any attempt to make their own failed systems of "government," or to be honest, "oppression," they attack the United States, and any other free society they can find. Alas, there are not too many of those. I agree whole-heartedly that the best thing we could do with that assembly of asses at Turtle Bay, would be to tell them that, as most of them profess to hate the United States more than they can express coherently, we are not going to force them to remain in our country any longer. Give them a month to pack their things, and they can relocate their circle of hatred to some other country. Perhaps Lesotho, Colombia, Iran, or China would welcome them. Or, here is an interesting thought, they could relocate the U.N. in, Tibet. We should bid them farewell with the words of Queen Agravaine, "Goodbye, Good luck, and Get out!" br> -- W. B. Heffernan, Jr. /p>

I found the paper more amusing than French bashing usually is. Thank you for maintaining a kind of humor in this long love-hate type of text !

p>French people are very thankful of the sacrifice of so many GI who helped us to get rid of the Nazis, when Hitler declared war on the United States (and not the contrary) after so many years when France was left alone in front of the mightiest army ever assembled. We did pay our share in 1940 with 100,000 men killed in one month (we somehow managed to kill 30,000 Germans during br> the same time, as history recognizes) and another 50,000 killed in the resistance or the Free French Army . Unfortunately, we could not retreat 1,000 miles as the Soviets did when facing the same onslaught. /p>

As the U.S. did not feel necessary to help France against England during the Napoleonic wars, we did not feel it necessary to enter into a war with Iraq, a sovereign nation with absolutely no links with Al Qaeda terrorism. More than that, we had already said that this action will only create a new area of instability where terrorism will develop, as verified since. An avalanche of anti-French rhetoric (and some anti-American also) followed our decision and the most ignorant part of the French and Americans took it very seriously.

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