America's North Shore Journal » France: Rogue Nation
Bastille Day 2005
As the French celebrate the storming of an empty prison by the wretched refuse of their teeming shore, I feel bound to make a call that I have made before. It’s time for a change in government in France. Time for the Sixth Republic. The French change republics as often as they change underwear. Why should they change now? The EU Constitution was voted down, despite the government’s single minded determination that France should led a united Europe. Corruption is wide spread in the government. The French continue to maintain a nuclear weapons program despite the lack of a threat, making France a rogue state in the community of nations. Under the Fifth Republic, France has gone from being a world power to being an afterthought on the world stage. An American has beaten France at its … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, France, France: Rogue Nation, Original writing
France: De Plane! De Plane!
I guess we know where the DeGaulle is. Highly provocative, sailing off our East Coast. Copyright 2005 by Action News. All Rights Reserved. Nine French fighter jets and a French weather plane had to make emergency landings at Atlantic City International Airport. Bad weather prevented them from flying back to their aircraft carrier, which is off the east coast. They landed because they were running light on fuel. Now the problem is everyone is waiting for officials from the French embassy to show up with money to buy more gas. [Cash please. No checks.] The French planes are here for the air show at McGuire this coming weekend. We look forward to seeing them there. … Read entire article »
Filed under: France: Rogue Nation, Military, Other Countries
Man with Girl’s Name Appointed PM
BBC Dominique de Villepin has been named as France’s new prime minister, following the country’s rejection of the EU constitution in Sunday’s referendum. How could the French President appoint a man as Prime Minister who is so patently anti-American? This is not at all helpful for Franco-American relations. de Villepin’s immoderate use of language about the United States and his clearly duplicitous dealings with the United States and its enemies should have disqualified him from serving in this post. The President of France has a moral and ethical obligation to pursue policies and appoint individuals which would narrow the gap between our two nations. France already suffers from a world-wide opinion of it as a rogue nuclear state, as well as a state that pursues a foreign policy bereft of international sanction. Its … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, France: Rogue Nation, Original writing
France builds Tallest Bridge
Reuters President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world’s highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France. Conceived by British architect Norman Foster, the slender white viaduct in the picturesque Tarn Valley will provide a new motorway link between Paris and the Spanish border, easing congestion in the Rhone valley during the busy summer months. Chirac unveiled a simple commemorative plaque before plunging into a throng of white helmeted construction workers, as an air display team flew past the bridge trailing red, white and blue smoke — the colors of the national flag. The French leader hailed the viaduct as a “marvel of art and architecture,” a monument to French engineering genius that was a “miracle … Read entire article »
Filed under: France: Rogue Nation
What’s French for “Whoops!”?
Zee French, zey air zo clever! Zey trane zee bowwows to sneef out zee exploseeves. ASSOCIATED PRESS Police at Paris’ top airport lost track of a passenger’s bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York. French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no chance of their going off, since no detonators were connected to them. More than 300 passengers were evacuated and their luggage searched when their Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle arrived in Los Angeles late Friday the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said Two Air France and one American Airlines flight to Paris were also … Read entire article »
Filed under: France, France: Rogue Nation, Mocking
A French Game
The French will be celebrating their liberation of Paris during this week. So, I want to play a little game. Just complete the following sentence: After fierce fighting, victorious French troops entered the city of [ ] RULES: The city named must be a city, not a village or hamlet. The city named cannot be in France. The city named cannot be in a current or former French colony. The Liberation of Paris: August 15-18, 1944: Strikes break out August 18, 1944: Communists call for insurrection August 19, 1944: Combat breaks out. The Resistance occupies several public buildings. Cease fire proclaimed late in day. August 20, 1944: The Americans enter Fontainbleau and cross the Seine at Mantes. Publicly, cease fire is maintained. August 21, 1944: Despite public cease fire, combat continues. August 22, 1944: General LeClerc … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, France, France: Rogue Nation, Military, Mocking, Original writing, World War II
You Cannot Humiliate French Soldiers
Then in June 1995, on the day that Chirac took office as president of France, a unit of French UN peacekeepers was taken hostage by the Serbs, tied to trees and chained to Serbian artillery pieces. Chirac, who had been wounded after he volunteered to serve in the French Army in Algeria, was outraged. “I will not accept this,” he told aides. “You can kill French soldiers, you can wound them, but you cannot humiliate them!…” From the International Herald Tribune 1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba1815: Napoleon defeated at WaterlooParis was surrounded by the Germans on Sept. 19, 1870 and a grueling siege began.1940: Paris falls, Vichy’s government formed8/11/42: Allies land in North Africa, French surrender5/7/54: French surrender at Dien Bien Phu7/3/62: Algeria given independance Yeah, you just can’t humiliate … Read entire article »
Filed under: France, France: Rogue Nation, Military, Mocking
Merde Hits Fan!
Pentagon adviser: France ‘no longer ally’ By Martin Walker UPI Chief International Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) — France is no longer an ally of the United States and the NATO alliance “must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not be talking about a NATO alliance” the head of the Pentagon’s top advisory board said in Washington Tuesday. Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and now chairman of the Pentagon’s Policy Advisory Board, condemned French and German policy on Iraq in the strongest terms at a public seminar organized by a New York-based PR firm and attended by Iraqi exiles and American Middle East and security officials. But while dismissing Germany’s refusal to support military action against Iraq as an aberration by … Read entire article »
Filed under: France: Rogue Nation, War on Terror
Coming Soon: Future Posts
- Declaration of War 1812 (in 129 days)
- USS President vs HMS Belvidera (in 134 days)
- General Hull Invades Canada (in 153 days)
- First Battle of Sacketts Harbor (in 160 days)
On Y!CN
- Radioactive Gravel from Japanese Nuke Disaster Used in Buildings
- Fuel Supplies Reach Nome
- Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome
- Russians Sail to Rescue of Ice Bound Alaska Community
- Pope Embraces Anglicans in U.S. with New Ordinariate
- Nebraska Nuke Plant Placed on Special Inspection Status
- Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Nuke Site
- Japan Damaged Nuke Plants Still Not Under Control
Social Links
France: Rogue Nuke Power
February 10th, 2006 | 1 Comment
What country has nuclear weapons and isn’t afraid to use them? Why, France, of course. Guardian France has secretly modified its nuclear arsenal to increase the strike range and accuracy of its weapons. The move comes weeks after President Jacques Chirac warned that states which threatened the country could face the “ultimate warning” of a nuclear retaliation. A military source quoted yesterday by the Libération newspaper claimed France had tinkered with its nuclear weapons to improve their strike capability and make this threat more credible. Which countries are most in range of this threat? Why, the EU countries. No more lip from you, Poland! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, France: Rogue Nation, Military, Original writing, Other Countries