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Feb. 11th, 2003
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Which Computer Component Are you?
"Talking Turkey"
Feb. 11th, 2003 01:44 pmFrm Slate:
Talking Turkey
Belgium isn't sabotaging NATO. Rumsfeld is.
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Monday, February 10, 2003, at 3:39 PM PT
It's one thing to accuse France and Germany of behaving stubbornly in the dispute over war with Iraq. It's another thing to wreck NATO in the process. Yet Bush officials seem strangely determined to do just that—or maybe they're just oblivious of where the latest round of the U.S. vs. "old Europe" kerfuffle might lead.
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Talking Turkey
Belgium isn't sabotaging NATO. Rumsfeld is.
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Monday, February 10, 2003, at 3:39 PM PT
It's one thing to accuse France and Germany of behaving stubbornly in the dispute over war with Iraq. It's another thing to wreck NATO in the process. Yet Bush officials seem strangely determined to do just that—or maybe they're just oblivious of where the latest round of the U.S. vs. "old Europe" kerfuffle might lead.
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"Plague of Frogs"
Feb. 11th, 2003 01:49 pmFrom The New Republic:
Plague of Frogs
by Robert Lane Greene
Only at TNR Online | Post date 02.11.03
FRANCE BLOCKS NATO WAR PLANNING, blares a February 10 CNN.com headline. But click through and you find a story about how France, Germany, and Belgium vetoed moves to prepare Turkey for war with Iraq. The headline is startlingly inaccurate, but in today's climate not at all surprising. With baseball's opening day still almost two months away, Americans in recent weeks have adopted an off-season national pastime: France-bashing.
Jonah Goldberg of National Review has revived the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" from its Simpsons provenance to describe the French, and now bloggers can't get enough of it. George Will, who doesn't often borrow from Rush Limbaugh's lexicon, recently called foreign minister Dominique de Villepin "oleaginous" and quipped that de Villepin's response to Colin Powell at the United Nations Wednesday showcased "the skill France has often honed since 1870--that of retreating, this time into incoherence." The New York Sun published a column last week claiming that France's "Last Great Coup" was the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928, which "roped" the United States into defending France from Germany. Richard Perle has groused that France has lost its "moral fiber." And on and on. All this obsessive loathing sounds oddly familiar. It reminds one of, what is it again? Oh, right--France's purported obsessive loathing of the United States.
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Plague of Frogs
by Robert Lane Greene
Only at TNR Online | Post date 02.11.03
FRANCE BLOCKS NATO WAR PLANNING, blares a February 10 CNN.com headline. But click through and you find a story about how France, Germany, and Belgium vetoed moves to prepare Turkey for war with Iraq. The headline is startlingly inaccurate, but in today's climate not at all surprising. With baseball's opening day still almost two months away, Americans in recent weeks have adopted an off-season national pastime: France-bashing.
Jonah Goldberg of National Review has revived the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" from its Simpsons provenance to describe the French, and now bloggers can't get enough of it. George Will, who doesn't often borrow from Rush Limbaugh's lexicon, recently called foreign minister Dominique de Villepin "oleaginous" and quipped that de Villepin's response to Colin Powell at the United Nations Wednesday showcased "the skill France has often honed since 1870--that of retreating, this time into incoherence." The New York Sun published a column last week claiming that France's "Last Great Coup" was the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928, which "roped" the United States into defending France from Germany. Richard Perle has groused that France has lost its "moral fiber." And on and on. All this obsessive loathing sounds oddly familiar. It reminds one of, what is it again? Oh, right--France's purported obsessive loathing of the United States.
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