by Red Phillips

Ether Zone

11/29/04

The effort to demonize the French obviously stems from their refusal to tow [sic] the American line prior to the war in Iraq. But this is one of the fallacies of neocon internationalism. It presumes a congruity of opinion between nations that is not necessarily evident to the other nation involved. Why should France support a policy that it perceives as not in its national interests, any more than the US should support policies that are not in its national interests for the sake of France? Did we not discontinue our military alliance with France after the Revolution because it was not in our national interest to get entangled in Europe's wars? There are a lot of things about the French not to like .... But their unwillingness to subjugate what they perceived as their national interest to the US hegemon is not one of them...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp