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2006-10-16 Afghanistan

French special forces will withdraw from Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am not ready to give up on the French, despite an endless series of defeats and capitulations, capped by the disgraceful spectacle of the "youths" and the carbecues and church-arsons last year. Keep in mind that the WW2 resistance, the heroic stand at Dien Bien Phu, and the great (though temporary) victory over Islamist terrorism in the Battle of Algiers all happened within living memory. When the French have had enough, it will be enough, and the crusader's mailed fist will emerge from the appeaser's velvet glove.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-16 06:01|| 2006-10-16 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Hi, welcome back, O Venerable One!
As for the french sursaut, I wish I was as confident as you (but then again, I'm part of the problem, not of the solution).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-16 06:17|| 2006-10-16 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Wish i could share your optimism, AC, but bravely they do run away

Posted by anon1 2006-10-16 10:01|| 2006-10-16 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 I try to keep in mind that rotten corrupt triangulating leadership, coupled with the unvarnished assistance of the MSM, makes it very hard to fairly judge a populace. Yes, they elect the leadership - and sometimes the agenda is in plain view and they deserve what they get as a result... but sometimes it's not so obvious.

When TGA was here, he tried to remind us of this on occasion - as AC is doing here. In honor of AC's return, and in hopes that TGA will also rejoin us, I'll try to keep an open mind on the populace that may have been sold a bill of goods.

BTW, it can, and some say will, happen here in the US come November - so a little charity seems apropos.

Posted by .com 2006-10-16 10:07|| 2006-10-16 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I may have made this point before.

Remember Entebbe. It was an Air France plane which was hijacked by Germans who'd been more or less hired by the Palestinians.

After the non-Jews were allowed to leave (the "selection" which turns a Jew's blood cold), the Air France crew elected to stay with the Jews to do what they could.

It was well done of them, and them not soldiers, either.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2006-10-16 10:32|| 2006-10-16 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not too put out. Weren't they just replaced by the Dutch special forces?

Posted by Fred 2006-10-16 13:20|| 2006-10-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

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