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French News agency has reported that Sarkosy’s is going to give French Muslims their berkas back with one simple request. Repatriate to the country you expatiated from, or fall in line with proper French Women between the age of 17 and 35, get a Brazilian wax, put on a thong and go have some casual sex,Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
or get gone!
Just doing what the gallant coalition has instructed them to do. If you thought that this was going to be a fair fight then you really don't understand how to deal with your adversaryQuote:
Originally Posted by Hondo
The gallant Americans have launched between 50 and 100 cruise missiles in the direction of Tripoli air defenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondo
It looks like you backed the wrong horse!
Horse ain't dead yet.
you guys just need to stomp on over there and kick some butocks
Plenty of boxes for you to come home in.
besides like i said, nothing gets the blood pumping faster than getting shot at and shooting back.
so where were the French in Iraq??
What do they have to gain, what money ???
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1429282.story
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Of course, the French have themselves been criticized for their muted response to the democratic uprisings in the Arab world, particularly in Tunisia, where France's cozy relations with the former government made it slow to support the demonstrations. In fact, on a visit to Tunis, the capital, three years earlier, Sarkozy had praised the nation's fight against terrorism and declared civil liberties to be expanding.
Having misplayed Tunisia, and taken a back seat in Egypt, Sarkozy was determined not to be relegated to the sidelines over Libya.
For at least two weeks, he has been agitating for some kind of military action to be taken against Kadafi and had turned to Britain as his ally in this quest, after irritating Merkel and other European leaders with what was seen as French grandstanding.
Ten days ago, European leaders and foreign ministers were reportedly furious after Sarkozy announced that France was recognizing the Libyan opposition, the first country to do so, just 24 hours before a summit to discuss the crisis.
At one point last week it was reported that Sarkozy was prepared to go it alone over Libya, with or without a United Nations resolution. But he apparently thought better of it.
After the Paris summit Saturday, Yves Leterme, the Belgian prime minister, made it clear who was running the Libyan offensive, telling journalists that France was "heading" the military operation.
For France, Libya is important, partly because it shares a border with four French-speaking countries strategic to France: Tunisia, Algeria, Chad and Niger. France also imports oil from Libya, and the French oil giant Total controls an important Libyan oil field.
For Sarkozy, though, Libya offers something else: an opportunity.
He'll be up for reelection in 2012, and the French appreciate nothing more than a president who puts them on the world stage and embodies what Charles de Gaulle once famously called "a certain idea of France" as a nation of exceptional destiny.
"If all goes well," a diplomat told Le Parisien newspaper, "it will be a great victory and show he is the man to have in a crisis."
For a little historical background I suggest you watch "The Battle of Agiers" It will give you a new appreciation of African Colonialism.Quote:
Originally Posted by markabilly
The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the events that occurred in the capital city of French Algeria between November 1954 and December 1960, during the Algerian War of Independence. The narrative begins with the organization of revolutionary cells in the Casbah. Then civil war between native Algerians and European settlers (pied-noirs) in which the sides exchange acts of increasing violence, leading to the introduction of French army paratroopers to hunt the National Liberation Front (FLN). The paratroopers are depicted as winning the battle by neutralizing the whole of the FLN leadership either through assassination or through capture. However, the film ends with a coda depicting demonstrations and rioting for independence by native Algerians, suggesting that although France won the Battle of Algiers, she lost the Algerian War.
The tactics of the FLN guerrilla insurgency and the French counter insurgency, and the uglier incidents of the war, are shown. Colonizer and colonized commit atrocities against civilians. The FLN commandeer the Casbah via summary execution of native Algerian criminals and other (considered) traitors, and applied terrorism to harass the civilian French colonials. The French colonialists resort to lynch mobs and indiscriminate, racist violence against the natives to hand. Paratroops routinely torture, intimidate, and murder in combating the FLN insurgents. Pontecorvo and Solinas have several protagonists, based on historical war figures. The story begins and ends from the perspective of Ali la Pointe (Brahim Hagiag), a petty criminal who is politically radicalized while in prison, and is then recruited to the FLN, by the (fictional) military commander El-hadi Jafar (Saadi Yacef, playing a character based on himself[2]
Only alcatraz would use fiction to prove a point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Alcatraz
Brilliant!
You forget that there wasn't a civil war going on in Iraq. It wasn't an intervention, it was an invasion and an attack against a peaceful country. Furthermore, the intervention in Libya has been approved by the UN, the invasion in Iraq hadn't. Libya and Iraq are two different things, although not totally different.Quote:
Originally Posted by markabilly
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ar/algeria.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
:s ailor: Winning (you wanabe)