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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:16 AM:
Den Beste says things are looking down for Gerhard Schroder - which means they're looking up for Bush. And there's some delightfully nasty commentary on the French.Researching Victor Hugo, I can report that French chauvinism goes back before the Fifth Republic (Hugo's notes postulate Paris' every defeat as a lost opportunity for history to drink from the waters of pure civilization). Of course, it's really worse. Forget about Louis XIV ("The Sun King"); the French have been insufferably on the side of self-righteousness since Saint Louis the Ninth's participation in the Crusades.
Woops! Forgot about their participation in the sack of Constantinople, presumably because raping the center of Eastern Christianity was necessary to freeing the Holy Land. That was a little after 1200, I think.
Anyway, it's a wonder these folks can even find the nerve to try to speak for truth, justice, etc, given their history - even as they criticize our intemperance.
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