French President Sarkozy Drinks “The Terror” Kool Aid

Bcc reports that the French are pissed off about getting caught up in the US war against the Taliban.

Shortly after he learned of the deaths of 10 French soldiers killed by Taleban insurgents, President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a statement saying he was travelling to Afghanistan to “assure the French troops that France stands by them”.

France does indeed stand by the courage of its serving soldiers but the French leader is deluding himself if he believes the French people also stand by the war.

A survey taken in April this year, when the president announced he was sending a further battalion of almost 800 soldiers to north-east Afghanistan, showed that two-thirds of people here believe their country had no place in the conflict.

France vociferously refused to let its soldiers become involved in the war in Iraq and there is a feeling that it has somehow unwittingly got into the conflict in Afghanistan through the back door

Having learned thier lessons about being occupiers in Algeria and Viet Nam, the French have called bullshit on George Bush style foriegn policy in no uncertian terms.

The left-leaning Liberation newspaper said on Wednesday that it was time for France to face up to the fact that, like it or not, it was now engaged in a full-blown war 5,000km (3000 miles) away.

The real challenge for the French soldiers, claimed a bitter editorial, was how to win an unwinnable war.

Knowing that being pals with Bush is political suicide, it looks like Sarkozy is throwing going to throw the haily mary.

President Sarkozy is adamant that the French engagement in Afghanistan is all about being part of the global fight against terrorism.

In a recent shake-up of the defence system, he announced that a terrorist attack was now the biggest single threat to French security.

THE TERROR!!!

Oh Well. The Republic was nice while it lasted.