Obviously the "French bashing crowd" are right-wing idiots; they are too stupid to have caught up with the turns of the situation. But we have.
> 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.
The French government's transformation from dove to jackal doesn't surprise me a bit. But what do you think you are "collaborating" with Jacques Chirac about -at present-? Why do you go and pay tribute to their past "dovehood" and ask a friendly question and line yourself up as a "friend of Chirac" totally unnecessarily? It's not a question of how "repelled" you are by their jackal policy, but what do you think you are accomplishing by covering up for it?
Suppose that Tariq Aziz had given a speech before the war, and the idiotic right-wing "Iraq-bashing" crowd were in attendance; and suppose I had gotten up and asked some friendly softball question saying that peace-loving people around the world honor Saddam Hussein's stance against US aggression or something. Immediately half this list would have pilloried me as an apologist for Saddam Hussein and said that WWP has lost all its legitimacy. Well, here you do that very thing for Jacques Chirac. I am not interested in "pillorying" you or anyone, but aren't you in fact making yourself an apologist for Jacques Chirac with much less justification? Indeed, from my point of view, many of the arguments that I get into with people are incorporated in the question of whether it isn't just as bad, OR WORSE, to be an apologist for Jacques Chirac as it is to be an "apologist for Saddam Hussein."
LP Let
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> > 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.
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> 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
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