Today, France agreed to a settlement deal with Libya for the 1988 downing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. France threatened a veto of the lifting of sanctions unless Libya coughed up more than the $2.8 billion they had agreed to pay to the families of the victims. France once again displays its rear-end by implicitly claiming that 270 predominantly French bodies are worth crushing a nation and starving a people group, but 3,000 American lives are not worth a regime change. At least with our plan, the people of Afghanistan and Iraq will have a shot at a better future. Libya is still stuck with Gadhafi. I'm the first to admit that I don't know much about how it all works in the lie, cheat, and steal world of international politics - but the French just continue to tick me off lately. Whatever.
Posted by Blandus at September 11, 2003 03:48 PM