[vinnomot] With a grain of piquant salt: Those frogs have a better Middle East foreign policy than the ross-bifs or yanks.

So here we have a country which was considered to be a colonial enterprise in the Middle East, hated with a vengeance, totally imperialistic, only interested in its own culture and shoving its language down the native throats, only interested in the natives' oil and in return selling arms to repressive regimes. And then thirty years later, it has suddenly become a close friend of the very same people who previously thought of them as an enemy. Yes, Sir, I am referring to France, the same cheese eating surrendering monkeys who have successfully managed to turn their foreign policy dramatically upside down, inside out, and to turn enemies into friends. Compare that to the USA and UK, which are still embroiled in that hell-hole called as the Middle East. What happened there? Any lessons to be learnt?

 

Continued on at: http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2007/10/those-frogs-have-better-middle-east.html

 

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Bhaskar Dasgupta

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