Sunday, November 06, 2005
Wake Up Europe, You Have a War on Your Hands
Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.
Great point about France and the Iraq War:
When you try to accomodate, many times that will be perceived as a sign of weakness...which will only encourage further bad behavior.
Now, when this involves Terrell Owens and football, who cares? When this involves jihadists, you have a problem on your hand.
Hat tip to Little Green Footballs.
Great point about France and the Iraq War:
The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as John Kerry. If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting alongside the Americans? For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. They seem to have lost that battle. Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctly identified Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.
When you try to accomodate, many times that will be perceived as a sign of weakness...which will only encourage further bad behavior.
Now, when this involves Terrell Owens and football, who cares? When this involves jihadists, you have a problem on your hand.
