[lbo-talk] Vive La France?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Lou:
> Are you serious about this?  You are comparing the 
> -government of France- to 
> Jews oppressed by the Nazis, or to the government of Iraq in 
> the gunsights of 
> the Pentagon?
> 
> I know the NY Post has an editorial today entitled "On to 
> Paris!", but 
> SERIOUSLY.  You feel called upon to organize an international 
> solidarity 
> movement to defend Jacques Chirac from persecution?!

No. But I find the French bashing crowd in the US infinitely more
repulsive than French political maneuvering.  


> 
> The people you are really afraid of shaking up are those 
> sections of the left 
> who got led into the whole Francophile thing during the 
> Security Council 
> debates and haven't found their way out yet.  Well, they 
> SHOULD be shaken up.

I do not need to be shaken up, because I do not have any ideological
blindness preventing me from seeing things a certain way.  I have no
doubt that French governemnt acts out of self-interest, but I do not
expect anyone to act altuistically - that is a true illusion of the
Left.  I see nothing worng in collaboarating with someone on one issue
and disagreeing on another issue.
Wojtek