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My Enemy, My "Ally"Mrs. du Toit nails something that's been bothering me about the French reporters recording the DHL attack:
Holding a camera instead of a gun doesn't make you an innocent.Posted by Jeff at December 4, 2003 11:42 PM | Link Cosmos
Imagine CNN following Adolph Hitler around--allowing Hitler to pose and get his 30 second sound bytes for the entire world to see. But that is exactly what CNN did with Saddam Hussein and exactly what the French press did in the above story.
When you do things like that, you cease being a member of the impartial press and become a member of the enemy’s propaganda organ.
The enemy's propaganda organ is a fair, legitimate, and strategic target.
It's time people started to realize this. France is not an ally. It isn't even correct to describe them as a wayward friend or a friend we're quarrelling with, with hopes of putting aside our differences at a later date. France is, without a doubt, the enemy.
Amen to that. France, as a nation, hasn't been, realistically, an ally since at least the days (post-WWII) of DeGaulle, et.al. - they've never really forgiven us for helping to save their sorry asses from the Nazis. Our political forfeiture in Vietnam - despite the fact that, once more, we were trying to drag their fat out of the fire - was just the frosting on the crumbled cookie.
For a long, long time, now, they've been at best a non-interfering bystander - most of the time, they've been worse than that.
Posted by: JB on December 11, 2003 01:52 PM