Krauthammer Takes Off The Gloves
I don't necessarily believe that
[...W]hen yet another insufferable penseur -- first Chirac, then de Villepin, now the editor of Le Monde -- starts lecturing Americans on how they ought to conduct themselves in the world, the rules of decorum are suspended.
but it certainly is fun that Charles Krauthammer believes it:
We [the french] loved you on Sept. 11 means: We like Americans when they are victims, on their knees and bleeding. We just don't like it when they get off the floor -- without checking with us first.Colombani glories in Europe's post-Sept. 11 ``solidarity'' with America: ``Let us remember here the involvement of French and German soldiers, among other European nationalities, in the operations launched in Afghanistan to ... free the Afghans.''
Come again? The French arrived in Mazar-e Sharif after it fell -- or as military analyst Jay Leno put it, ``to serve as advisers to the Taliban on how to surrender properly.''
You have to read the whole thing just to enjoy the heights of outrage the man reaches. He's right, of course, but I don't think my blood pressure could take being quite so right.