Re: Filmmaker Moore Quotes Goss on Lack of CIA Credentials

From: J&KCopeland (jckc2004_at_kc.rr.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:45:34 GMT

"Emmi H." <hugnkiss98122MYBLOUSE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <PiASc.36630$ju6.21286@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
> "J&KCopeland" <jckc2004@kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > "Psalm 110" <ScienceCop@HighCommand.org> wrote in message
> > news:hshlh0dlpfij95n1riici1pndengrgj8is@4ax.com...
> > >
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5944517
> > >
> > > Filmmaker Moore Quotes Goss on Lack of CIA Credentials
> > > Wed Aug 11, 2004 06:40 PM ET
> > >
> > > By David Morgan
> > >
> > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Congressman Porter Goss, President Bush's
> > > nominee for CIA director, could be his own worst enemy when it comes
> > > to making the case that he deserves to lead the U.S. intelligence
> > > agency.
> >
> > I've got an idea. Let's make Mike Moore, ambassador to France. And
once
> > he's there, revoke his passport.
>
> Not a chance.
>
> Moore's only chance of becoming an ex-pat US citizen of France is to be
> convicted of paedophilia, a la Roman Polanski.
>
> At this point in time, France's only interest is in distancing itself
> from the US as it builds up it's military and seeks to supplant the US
> as the dominant miltary power in Western Europe.
>

France is a thermonuclear power. One should never ignore a cop with a 9mm
or country with thermonuclear weapons.

But France has some serious internal problems. Something on the order of 14
percent of their population is non-integrated Moslem. It is reputed,
(meaning I have never been there) that some areas around Paris are cess
pools of violent crime, barely contained.

French politics have always been determined by "the streets" as much as
whatever is the current government.

Chirac is running in a race to try and create a French dominated Federal
Union before all the problems crush them. (Crush them = Chaos, massive
internal instability and, in an absolute worse case scenario, the collapse
of French society.)

They HAVE to contain a resurgent Eastern Europe, and keep Germany from
thinking that maybe a third time will be a charm.

("The Poles are more pro-American than the Americans." What delicious
irony. Invaded for centuries by the Russians, the Germans, and just about
anyone else that could raise and army, with just a pittling amount of help
from America, the haughtily French could easily wake up on day and find the
Poles as the Den Mothers of Western Europe.)

 At the same time, the entire French post-War culture has to be revamped.
They are, simply put, no long competitive in many areas. (It's not all good
news. The French medical research establishment was very well regarded,
worldwide.) And with every passing day, the hole just gets deeper. I
wouldn't want to be the one telling the general French population, that
their eye-popping leisure/vacation time, leadpipe labor laws, very early and
lucrative retirements, will all be coming to an end in the (relatively) near
future. That news will not be well received. The collapse of the Soviet
Union can teach some very good lessons, when a well established, but highly
collective society, suddenly implodes.

In addition, there are hidden chasms. For instance, the French built
nuclear reactors with abandon and fully 70 percent of their electrical power
comes from nuclear energy. Problem is, the older reactors are reaching the
end of their life expectancy, and the problem will escalate, with each
passing year. France, either has to start on a massive replacement
campaign, or begin building new generation fossil fuel plants.

>From the French perspective Iraq was all about oil supplies...French oil
supplies. (Chirac had cultivated Hussein for decades and now the damnable
Americans are threatening not to honor all those sweetheart contracts.) No
wonder, Chirac is cranky. (That plus the fact that if he ever loses an
election, the most likely result will be a jail cell on corruption charges.
BTW. French jails have the highest suicide rate in the Western world.)

One shouldn't ignore France. If for no other reason, they should be the
source of a good deal of (totally ignoble but satisfying) amusement in the
next few decades.

James...
George Bush is a terrible candidate. Look how long it took the Democrats to
find someone worse.

"The world has gone crazy. The best golfer is black, the best rapper is
white, the tallest player in the NBA is Chinese, the Germans don't want to
go to war and the French are accusing the Americans of arrogance." Chris
Rock.

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