I could kiss Charles Krauthammer right on the mouth for coining the phrase "shooting French in a barrel."
After that lede, then he gets mean.
That image is just plain nasty.
I just cannot comprehend Colombani.
Despite steel tarffs etc, how can anyone who doen't want to look like a total fool think Kerry likely to be more pro-free trade than Bush?
Can even educated (quote unquote) Frenchmen be that stupid? That guy's a newspaper editor who can't read the news then has the cojones to tell us how to fight our war for survival!?!?
Those people haven't done anything right in 150 years. They're in a free-fall collapse yet tout themselves as the frustrated saviors of the world.
Something's genetically wrong over there.
PS. Try Rain Vodka. It's tasty, has a kick and is American made.
Oh yeah, there's nothing like hot neo-con on neo-con action. Don't knock it 'til you tried it.
(Seriously, though, that is a great article.)
He did, arguably, muff a minor point on foreign participation in Afghanistan. The Japanese provided naval support. Not a big thing to us, but a big, big leap for them.
He muffed a major point as well: the French Air Force flew 10% of all sorties over Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom.
See here, for example: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/manas.htm
