Posted by
arandomguy on Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:53:39 PM
This isn't really a surprise. The loyalty of the French government to the cause of freedom and democracy has always been... questionable. However, in choosing to side with the Chinese on Iran, they have proven that not only has their time on the world stage passed, but that France is perhaps a danger to the world due to the incompetence of their government.
What have these nations done? They've issued a joint statement, calling on North Korea to cease nuclear tests, and calling on Iran to comply with the UN resolution deadline that passed nearly two months ago. Really effective measures, I'd say. With friends like these....
China and France have shown an obvious unwillingness to see sanctions imposed against Iran and their nuclear programs, and I have a feeling they only agreed to sanctions against North Korea because nuclear weapons were involved (and because their friends the Chinese signed off on it).
There's really not much else to say - the French bashing has enough prior references on this blog to suffice, so I'll refrain from a large majority of it here. But the French government is a danger to the world, because they do not recognize the threat they face from islamic terror, and they are not willing to help out the people that do - the United States, and Great Britain. And until Chirac learns what kind of threat is out there, he will continue to live in his own naive little world, where he can't be hurt.
And then the French government building gets bombed by a suicidal Jihadist, and maybe then he'll wake up.