What's The Big Deal?

Can somebody explain why the hawks are so up-in-arms over France's opposition to war? (In the latest, most childish manoeuvre to-date, for example, the House of Reps' cafeterias have ceased serving "French" Fries, in lieu of "Freedom" Fries. You'd think these people could find something more important to do with their time.)

The French, after all, are not alone in promising to veto any new UN Resolution authorising force: China and Russia have promised the same. And the Resolution would be down in flames altogether were it not for American coercion of the "swing" voters, would receive an even more ignominous response were it advanced in the General Assembly, and would probably fail to secure even 10% of the vote in a hypothetical plebiscite of all the world's people. So again, why take it out on the French?

But even more to the point, why take it out at all? The Bush Administration has promised many times over that it will obliterate Iraq with or without UN authorisation. So, shouldn't the war-mongers, knowing full well that there's nothing anybody can do to stop it, be sniggering mercilessly at the rest of the world's bumbling efforts to prevent this war?

Maybe they're just pissed off that it hasn't started yet...

Posted by Eddie Tews at March 12, 2003 09:32 PM