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Updated 2/19/2003
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Time for the French to Take Their Proper Place in the UN
February 19, 2003
The French have been leading the aPeacement Movement - that loosely organized Anti-American, Pro-Saddam confederation of ideas which seem to condemn the US response to Iraq's flagrant disregard for their own agreement to end hostilities 12 years ago.
Trying to grab the moral high ground they pretend to be anti-violence (unless attacked by Green Peace) and protectors of world order. This moral high ground can be seen no more clearly than Jacques Chirac's recent moral lecturing of the Eastern European countries who have chosen to politically align themselves with the US.
Chirac lectured these nations in an astonishing manner. He called their pro-American letter "irresponsible," and evidence that they had been "badly brought up." "They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet," Chirac said.
The French view themselves as leading a people's majority to curtail America's bad behavior. They view 2003 as 1968 (and our involvement then began by pulling the French chestnuts out of the fire), but actually it is 1938, when America's “best generation” rose up to throw off the excesses of German and Japanese tyrants.
It is 1968 only in that some Hollywood celebrities think they can get favorable publicity while some 50-somethings just want to reminisce for the good old days when there were plenty of causes to protest.
The war has already started. It is already upon us. It started when the airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers. We can try appeasement as was tried in 1938, or we can step before the enemy can get into full swing. Tyrants don't collect weapons of mass destruction in defiance of the US, the UN and world opinion unless they plan a use for them. There is plenty of evidence that Saddam would use those against the US by supplying Al'Qeda. There will be no peace in our time - to do nothing will only bring on more destruction - just as turning tail in Somalia indirectly lead to the Twin Towers.
The French abdicated their military responsibilities to NATO in 1965. They are no longer a world power in any meaning of the word. They are even economically 3rd among EU nations behind Germany and England. There is no reason for them to have a veto over the responsible application of power in the world today. It is time for the French to take their proper place in the world order and give up their permanent seat on the Security Council.
-Murrel Rhodes
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