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Sacre bleu! What is wrong with France?

Toulouse Murders Show France’s True Colors



Back in 2004, authors John J. Miller and Mark Molesky wrote in “Our Oldest Enemy” that the cherished idea of French friendship with the United States has little basis in reality. The French have always been the United States’ rivals, they stated, and have harmed and obstructed U.S.interests more often than not. The authors assert that France’s support to the American Revolution was minimal, although it appears that the Major General, the Marquis de Lafayette, was a devoted aide to George Washington during the 18th Century American struggle against the British.
This all comes to mind again with the recent shootings in France in which three French paratroopers and four Jews were murdered within a span of eight days, almost assuredly by a Muslim Jihadist or as the media always reports, a “French citizen of Algerian descent.” The way in which the French handle these types of terror incidents is a window into their tres bizarre world view. A French paratrooper wearing civilian clothing was shot and killed on Sunday March 11 in a suburb of Toulouse, France. Then, two more paratroopers were shot and killed and a third critically injured while wearing uniforms outside a bank in Toulouse, a southern French city. But how well does sleepy France mobilize into action? Remember France is a country where people, much less soldiers are not routinely murdered. Is there a nationwide call up of personnel? Hardly, 50 soldiers are commandeered and incredibly, France’s military, get this, orders French soldiers not to leave their bases wearing uniforms!!!

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A full Friday, Saturday, and Sunday pass without capture of the assailant. Given enough time to allude such a skimpy response, the Jew-hating Muslim, oh, sorry, I mean the French citizen of Algerian descent, sped on his motorcycle to a Jewish school in Toulouse where he rabidly massacred a rabbi, his two sons, and then mercilessly slaughtered a beautiful, angelic, young Jewish girl of eight years old, literally grabbing her by the hair, restraining her, then taking time to reload his weapon, put it to her head, and fired a fatal shot. Thankfully, this French citizen of Algerian descent shot himself to death while jumping from a window after French swat teams stormed the apartment he was holed up in after a successful manhunt. But how can have it taken 10 days to corner and eliminate this vermin when everything points to a major terrorism incident that should demand a massive retaliation and response? I’m neither an expert in intelligence gathering nor special operations, however it is my perception that the French besides missing the signs about this butcher’s hostility, they also don’t know how to fight back appropriately. Welcome to France, the country that has made surrender an art form. See World War II, 1940. Before that, the country lost one-third of its adult male population to injury or death during the First World War, one hundred years ago. Its capitulation during World War II also included cooperating with the Nazis in sending 75,000 Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz, the French contribution to the Holocaust. This is the country that U.S. Sen. John Kerry wants the United States to consult on American Foreign Policy. I recall that during the Ft. Hood massacre in 2009, a woman soldier stormed into the brink to try and bring down Maj. Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 soldiers on the base. A second military police officer eventually stopped Hasan, shooting him enough times to paralyze him from the waist down. Unbelievably, though, Hasan has remained jailed and is still awaiting a complete trial. In the United States, these two police officers did not worry about Hasan’s motives; they tried to stop him then and there. So how does France handle terrorism on its soil? It’s worth mentioning that Jews are fleeing France in large numbers for Israel. Synagogues are bombed and Jews attacked on the streets, routinely. Europe’s largest Jewish community is considered in a state of collapse there. Why do these episodes happen in France? How come it takes France days to mobilize with sufficient force against someone who kills its soldiers in broad daylight? How come it allows the establishment of non-Muslim zones that French people are not allowed to enter? Here’s why it took worldwide media embarrassment to rouse them into action after the Jews were murdered. They can’t bring themselves to say that the perpetrator was evil and in need of eradication. The first stories about these massacres included all sorts of psychological analysis as to the French citizen of Algerian descent’s upbringing and mental and emotional outlook. The French Interior Minister described him as a “lone wolf,” despite the thousands of other lone wolves decapitating infidels and massacring innocent children. I would call this French citizen of Algerian descent an “inhuman piece of excrement.” However, a French professor declared him in “the process of some sort of new identity-building” in describing what had happened. Even after the special-forces team killed the cretin in the final confrontation, the hand-wringing continued with one police official musing why death was the final outcome rather than the capture of the #. The coup de grace goes to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who upon the murder of the rabbi and Jewish children told a junior high school audience in Paris that “these children are exactly like you. That could have happened here.” As the columnist Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman noted in a well-circulated email article, that yes the attack on rabbi and the Jewish children could have happened someplace else, but it wouldn’t have because they were targeted for being Jews. I would add to that and because they were Jewish in France, where France dawdled, downplayed, rationalized, and explained away rather than take decisive action again the enemy within its borders. Are there many French-American associations in the United States? Probably a few, but paling in comparison to the pride the Irish or the Italians have in their respective heritages. How France replace its national rallying cry of Vive La France with “France, Not Too Much to Write Home about Since Lafayette in 1781.”


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Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings.  He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.


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