How Chirac plans to deal with terrorist states. France always gets away with belligerence whenever it suits them. Playing the nuke card is no small beer. Especially in light of Iran's march toward a bomb and the internal unrest France has with their Muslim population. I think France is telegraphing their willingness to prevent Iran from going nuclear at all costs. They would never pre-emptively nuke Iran but I can see them passively, or even actively aiding the US in doing so.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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