Russ Emerson | March 29, 2004
Has anyone noticed the propensity of the French to convert an unhappy necessity into a virtue? Their foodstuffs were inedible, so they invented sauces; their plumbing was medieval, so they invented perfume; and their military was humiliated wherever it set foot, so they invented “diplomacy,” by which they meant, first, collaboration and, second, appeasement. OpinionJournal […]
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Russ Emerson | March 26, 2004
The always indispensible Victor Davis Hanson: We should remember that this war of barbarism against civilization is global and connected. Poor Mr. Villepin [who is, we have been told, a man – Russ] may ignore that his country’s appeasement and profit-making in Iraq were helpful to Saddam Hussein’s state-sponsored terrorism and he may believe that […]
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