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Originally Posted by cheapseats
Not me, in a way.
It has never been particularly significant to me that a perpetual flame burns in front of JFK's grave, but it would be consequential if, say, neo-Nazis doused it.
The ritual that seems arcane and idiotic to me is laying down arms in order to gather to compete in sports.
Fifty yard dash, you say? I'm fast...lemme just set this rocket launcher down. How 'bout over here, would it be in the way on the grassy center of the track? I won't be a moment.
What IS significant is that the goodest goodwill portion of the games is derailed by angry protests-read-that-civil-unrest.
What is also interesting that, for all that we lambaste those spiky French, it was they who served Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes papers and they who now rain on the Olympic parade.
I understand that the torch ceremony was interrupted in London, as well.
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Those who criticize the French, are simply grossily misinformed.
Ok, they did send help for Bush'w war in Iraq, but that is because
they have had their own share of fighting insurgents at the end of their empire last century in North African countries. Millions of frenchmen including president Jacques Chirac, fought over in Africa through reqired miltary service. The French lost all of those battles as well as the Algerian war. The French population knows a hell lot more about war than the American public.
And, those anti-French talking heads conveniently do not mention that
France has always been the country with the most amount of troops in Afghanistan helping the US.
To slam the French is to trully reveal one's
very ignorant pov.