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| France's Pro-America Turn |
| 2007-01-27 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 It is not that the French have been anti-American for centuries. It is that the French have been French for centuries. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-27 15:59 |
| #5 The French have been brainwashed into hating America for The first efforts from governement to make French hate America were during the Civil War when Napoleon III wanted to help the CSA and faced a public opinion who was strongly pro-Union. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-01-27 15:43 |
| #4 The French have been brainwashed into hating America for |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-01-27 15:31 |
| #3 The French have been brainwashed into hating America for decades. Today declaring hilsef Pro-American is political suicide. The only thing Sarkoozy can do is to quietly dissuade papzers from going too far in Antimericanism (part of their funding comes from the tax payer and part of their advertising from sate-controlled companies), have the history books rewritten (basically young French learn that the Americans fallen on D-DAY were fighting for Coca Cola and Gillette) plus no longer oppose systematically to Amerrica (Chrac's biographer says he positively hates her. BTW, he stood six months in America when young and apparently tried to seduce a girl and was sent packing). So it would be betters than Chirac. BTW I think even Royal (the socialist) would be a progress respective to Chirac. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-01-27 14:50 |
| #2 I agree, there's lot of wishful thinking in it, and sarko is not a credible conservative, despite his more atlantist stance. The socialist candidate, marie-ségolène royal, despite being coached by a PR firm close to the clintonistas, certainly wouldn't close the franco-Us gap, and nor would any other candidate (at least publically, the security cooperation never has stopped, from the little I understand, as it does with Israel, for example). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-01-27 10:45 |
| #1 I'll take Unlikely for $400, Alex... |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-01-27 10:38 |