Bulldog no more
02.12.2003Rod Liddle has a wonderfully well-thought-out anti-American column in The Guardian. I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being objective. He points out that Britain shouldn't be overly eager to side w/ us simply for loyalty's sake. That's more than fair. I think every country should follow it's own self-interest in international affairs. So should we.
I do want to post a small excerpt, however. Liddle's column begins citing an anti-French rant by Pete King, a US Senator. I'm posting it because I think it's hilariously over-the-top (he even quoted Bart Simpson):
What a divine pleasure it was to hear the Republican senator Pete King eviscerating the hapless French on our radios yesterday morning. It was a perfect way to begin the day: basking in the happiness of not being French, of not being, as Bart Simpson has it, a "cheese-eating surrender monkey".
The French are, according to Pete, an irrelevance -- and useless, to boot. "They don't even have a working aircraft carrier," he kept repeating, between diatribes about France's heroic and longstanding commitment to the principle of capitulation. Garlic-swathed beignet-stuffed sexually dysfunctional trash-pop Petainist belching Gauloise-smoking hypocritical papist bastard haw-hee-haw Johnny bloody Halliday up-yours-Delors coward monkeys, the lot of them. From Biarritz to Lille. Via the town of Vichy. And apart from Emmanuelle Béart, of course.
Posted by Miguel at 06:56 PM