France issues 'please explain' to US

[Whaleboy]

Flame-war, whatever u wanna call it.... conversation with lack of reason... hell i should write my own dictionary!

[Menlas]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
How much time did it take you to type out a dissertation filled with crap?

Should I dismantle point-by-point, or leave that to Doc, who won't be as nice in doing it ?

Honestly, Sloww, I don't think you are even able to "dismantle it point-by-point".

[SlowwHand]

At least you take the ribbing with good grace, Elijah.

[HershOstropoler]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
We'll never know now.

"You can't be serious."

[DinoDoc]

elijah: Long dissertation posts tend to get ignored as a general rule. If you feel the need to continue to post them, take a page from MtG's book and make them fun to read.

[Ned]

Originally posted by HershOstropoler
Look Ned, you are spouting so much historical bull**** that it almost hurts physically.

"the French alone among our allies wanted to keep their colonies."

And Britain, after the decolonization of India in 1947, had a strategy of maintaining its colonies west of Suez.

"The fought in Africa and in SE Asia. They retook the Suez canal."

And Britain had nothing to do with the Suez adventure? Britain was not fighting in say Kenya?

"our overall policy was still anti-colonialism"

Yes, you always preferred indirect control as a method of imperialism. Usually it is the better way.

I agree that Britain did keep many of its colonies. But I still maintain that US policy was anti-colonialism and we pressed that policy to the extent we could.

The question is whether the French right turned anti-American because of it?

[Whaleboy]

"is it your position that the people of Iraq do not want liberty?"

Not at all. All cultures evolve towards a more libertarian position. Im saying that they shuold not be pushed. They want liberty (i assume), but they want it their way, an Arab, Muslim way, not a Western judeo-christian way.

[The Mad Monk]

How about this:

English governmental traditions have been a slow evolution from monarchy to rule by the people, from the Magna Carta onward; Americans extended that to the next logical step.

French governmental traditions have been a slow evolution toward ever-greater absolutism, until people sick of the mismanagement overthrew everything, started a democracy that rapidly fell into mob rule, collapsed, and reverted to absolutism in another form for a time (Napoleon), after which it reverted to monarchy, for a time.

[Whaleboy]

Sloww: I do my best at not taking myself too seriously!

[Whaleboy]

"French governmental traditions have been a slow evolution toward ever-greater absolutism, until people sick of the mismanagement overthrew everything, started a democracy that rapidly fell into mob rule, collapsed, and reverted to absolutism in another form for a time (Napoleon), after which it reverted to monarchy, for a time"

You ever been to France?

[HershOstropoler]

"The question is whether the French right turned anti-American because of it?"

In 1954, the US paid for 80 % of France's Indochina war. You think they hate you 50 years later for not paying 100 %?

[Whaleboy]

Wheres my stuffed lizard?

[SlowwHand]

You know this, "Who needs a motive if you're a nineteen year old cowboy with an automatic weapon surrounded by people you refer to as "rag-heads" - War of Art, demonstrating his keen insight of the American Soldier.", is a misspeak.

If a soldier has his weapon on auto, likely his position is being over-run, and he has all the motivation he requires.


Later!

[Whaleboy]

"make them fun to read"

They are fun to read... if your not American, not communist, an environmentalist, an idealist, a philosophy lover........

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by elijah
Wheres my stuffed lizard?

I have a Beanie Baby Komodo dragon on top of my monitor. Yes, that's right. It's a monitor lizard.