{"id":22818,"date":"2011-04-05T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22818"},"modified":"2011-04-05T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:44:17","slug":"following-france-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22818","title":{"rendered":"Following France to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never, even in a drunken stupor, thought I&#8217;d see France lead anything beyond a fashion show. Yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_FRANCE_MILITARY_MUSCLE?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-04-05-13-49-05\">this is how far we&#8217;ve fallen<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the same France that vigorously opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq eight years ago and has advocated trying every possible approach before bringing in the guns in other international crises.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the extraordinary turnaround may be rooted in a revival by President Nicolas Sarkozy of traditional French notions of high-minded interventionism, as well as an attempt by the French leader to ease Europe away from its longtime dependence on the U.S. security umbrella.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, France was the first to fire it&#8217;s weapons in the Ivory Coast to cause the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110405\/wl_nm\/us_ivorycoast_gbagbo_instant_4\">latest third world shit hole dictator<\/a> to hunker down and beg for mercy. And it&#8217;s a war for cocoa, for some reason. It figures that France would find a condiment worth blood and treasure.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press says &#8220;It&#8217;s the same France that vigorously opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq eight years ago&#8221; but obviously, it&#8217;s not the &#8220;same&#8221; France. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that part of the world is finally shouldering their portion of responsibilities to the community of nations. I guess it&#8217;s better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never, even in a drunken stupor, thought I&#8217;d see France lead anything beyond a fashion &hellip; <a title=\"Following France to war\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22818\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Following France to war<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}