[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[Dirk Bruere]

Al Brooks wrote:

> Sure it's hypocrisy. All foreign policy everywhere is based on 
> hypocrisy except...where? Monaco?  I'm glad you discuss American 
> hypocrisy because I live in a red state and the attitude here is "up 
> yours, pinko". Yet I also want to be informed more about what other 
> nations besides the US and British are doing, for instance we are 
> told very little about murderous French hypocrisy in N. Africa. Are 
> African lives worth less than Iraqi lives? are the French kinder 
> gentler executioners? do they let captured insurgents drink a bottle 
> of wine before they are shot?
>
>     *//*
>
I assume you are referring to Ivory Coast?
AFAIK the French have not been killing tens of thousands of people, most 
of them civilians like the US in Iraq.
Neither, for that matter, have the British in Sierra Leone.

If you want the info go get it - it's all on the Net.
Of course, if you are referring to the French colonial period then I'd 
agree.
It was certainly comparable to what the US is doing now.

-- 
Dirk

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