Shane Mage wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> > ... the idea being, of course, that you need a de Gaulle to withdraw
> > from Algeria and a Nixon to go to China because they won't draw fire
> > from
> > the right...
>
> As to deGaulle, that idea is quite false. deGaulle set off a violent
> insurrectionary resistance (the OAS) and barely escaped assassination.
This doesn't refute Marvin's point, since against anyone else the "insurrectionary" forces from the right would have been much stronger.
Carrol