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The terrorists, they say, just "hate our system -- democracy, freedom, equality." Our being over there has nothing to do with it.
The neoconservatives acknowledge that the United Nations is irrelevant (and it is), yet when French foreign policy clashes with our own, the neoconservatives get hoppin' mad.
We might pause to remember that France is our first and oldest ally; and it was a Frenchman, Charles Martel, who stopped the Muslim invasion of Europe and saved Western civilization and Christianity.
The neoconservatives' long-distance rage against the French proves the Old Right's point against intervention. The incendiary effects of foreign policy are real, even when policy is shaped 3,500 miles away in Paris. Neoconservative displeasure with Europe, also, is somewhat naive, now that the Soviets are gone. Unwilling lap dogs to American globalists, the French et al. are naturally trying to counterbalance the hegemonic power of the United States, Iraq notwithstanding.
In any event, Americans need not ask these folks' permission to take care of family business. Once we take out Saddam and al-Qaida, however, we should return home to our American family and reclaim the borders, language and culture of our Old Republic.
Butler
