Saturday, May 24, 2003

[Colin Glassey] And you think I have bad things to say about France? Try reading this essay by the French academic Françoise Thom. He totally blasts the French diplomatic policy of the last 2 years. This is from the end of the essay: We declare that France does not believe in the “clash of civilizations,” as if denial were enough to erase it. For greater security, we go as far as abolishing the idea of civilization. This is why we seek to deny at all costs the fact that France shares the same civilization as the United States... Our foreign policy thus expresses a sort of preemptive capitulation. France takes the initiative of breaking with the Western camp in the hope of avoiding a battle of wills with its wild and fanatical youth after having failed to tame it. This profound cowardice is hidden behind the exhibited panache of a little country that oppose a big one. By other accounts it seems that France's vaunted integration of Arab and Moslem minorities has been a total failure. Rather than trying to fix this problem, the French choose to give in to the hatred coming out of their slums. (Thanks to Porphyrogenitus for the links). 11:58:10 PM

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