[Attila The Nun]

It may not technically be political, but it's too funny to pass up.

[Boondock Saint]

Intersting ...



The following provides some support, imo, for the nationalization of major industry.



The following shows a great disdain for the French and provides the opinion that Hezbollah is a regional giant. Note the hairy legs which makes one think of barbarism.





Here we see the NIMBY American kicking himself in the ass ...



Here we see the further villinization of Mel Gibson, as if he walked into a synogogue and butchered Jewish families.



Here we see a cartoon from Syria ...

[Ombrageux]

The French are going back into Lebanon?

Unlikely, I can't see Chirac assuring his "legacy" by helping clean up the Americo-Israeli mess in the Middle East... no, no going back to Lebanon since French troops got car-bombed (with about 200 US marines) last time they went.

[Boondock Saint]

I agree DT

There will be alot of talk about an international force but when push comes to shove, no one will really want to provide boots for the force.

Perhaps Turkey will provide some troops but ... certainly not enough.

I can't see any European nations going there, certainly not for the sake of keeping Hezbollah under check.

[p-brane]

There is too much going on in this cartoon.

[Rodion]

The following shows a great disdain for the French and provides the opinion that Hezbollah is a regional giant. Note the hairy legs which makes one think of barbarism.

I'm actually fine with Hizbullah being portraid as barbaric (shock, shock, surprise, surprise).

What bothers me, is the fact that the cartoon implies that the French military is willing, but somehow inadequate to handle Hizbullah. Relucant - maybe. Inadequate - definetly not.

[The American Lion]

[Yeddi]

What bothers me, is the fact that the cartoon implies that the French military is willing, but somehow inadequate to handle Hizbullah. Relucant - maybe. Inadequate - definetly not.

What you have to remember is that this is an American cartoon and that the Americans have a deepseeded hatred for the French. This is partially because both nations are incrediably arrogant and also because the Americans resent the French for not only supplying them with the very ideas that they based their revolution on but needing their aid to succeed in their revolution against the British.

[The American Lion]

We don't hate the French. We just pitty them. Since their lack of a good military record after WWII.

[p-brane]

We just pitty them. Since their lack of a good military record after WWII.

What is a good military record?

[Nets]

We don't hate the French. We just pitty them. Since their lack of a good military record after WWII.

Since like Napoleon. They've lost how many wars to Germany betwwen then and now?

[Ombrageux]

The US hardly has a stirling post-WW2 record:
- Korea, stalemate
- Vietnam, disaster
- Iraq, so far, disaster
All of these have proven enormously expensive, and by the way, France's getting her ass kicked in Vietnam was, at least, paid for by the USA.

(though I won't try to defend France's war in Algeria, she's had a militarily respectable record everywhere else. Which has included actions in Chad, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Gulf War I among others)

[The American Lion]

Iraq, so far, disaster

The war ended three years ago. Its just growing pains of a new democracy. We cant say it's a disaster untill like 2013 or 2023. Then we will use history to decie.

[Ombrageux]

The war ended three years ago.

Then lord save us from this peace.

[QatzelOk]

It's just growing pains of a new democracy.

I can't wait until Iraq is a teenager and tells child-beating grease-ball daddy and mommy (and their coalition) to go hegemony themselves.

[Blondie]

Americans resent the French for not only supplying them with the very ideas that they based their revolution on

Actually, it's the other way around bud.

Whose revolution came first?

America's.

[Red_Army]

Sorry buddy, which comes first alphabetically?

That's right, its France.

[Nets]

Actually, it's the other way around bud.

Whose revolution came first?

America's.

No only that...whose revolution wasn't characterized by mobs of angry peasants murdering rich people, under successively bloody dictatorships?

[Yeddi]

Whose revolution came first?

I'm well aware of who's revolution came first. They still supplied America with the ideas

[The Immortal Goon]

What you have to remember is that this is an American cartoon and that the Americans have a deepseeded hatred for the French. This is partially because both nations are incrediably arrogant and also because the Americans resent the French for not only supplying them with the very ideas that they based their revolution on but needing their aid to succeed in their revolution against the British.

This goes back to the beginning of the US. You always had your Americans who wanted to be more like the French (revolutionary France that is) and then those who wanted stability and wanted to be more like the British.

It's the same now, but the people who wanted to be more like the British are just way louder.

-TIG