Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> What the French government, in its quest to attack the
> United States in this affair, didn't realize is that
> American politics are not like French politics. What
> the people think in the United States has a real
> influence on foreign policy. And the people, right
> now, are pissed at France. That's not going to go
> away. An entire generation of politically active
> Americans who came of age during this crisis are going
> to think of France as an enemy of the United States.
> That is damage that may never be healed.
Well, some of them will realize it wasn't the fault of the entire French
nation, that maybe just some of the leadership was, at some point, in need
of a proctocraniectomy or something.
Julia
wondering if maybe the French leadership is trying to cover part of
someone's anatomy and that's affecting their decisions in the matter, but
that might lead someone to believe that I'd actually read some Safire
columns lately
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