🚀 go-pugleaf

Re: French nuclear testing:

Ah, leave the French alone.  They got the sh*t kicked out of them during
WWII by the Germans while for a while many other nations stood by doing
nothing, so if they want to develop and refine their weapons technology,
just let them.  They've learned an important lesson:  in this world, you
sometimes have to defend yourself.  Others aren't going to do it for you.

Lots of good the UN "peacekeepers" would be if the Iraquis were to loft
ICBM's toward France someday.

Sure, you don't like having your nice clean (well, it was once nice) ocean
contaminated with radioactive fallout.  But the French didn't like having
their gorgeous countryside littered either with bomb craters and military
debris.

I suspect that the French at this time don't give a dam about outside
opinion after their experience in recent historical times.  If you can't
reach the place where such decisions are politically made in a culture,
then you can't change the outer behavior.

Vive la franchaise


Dale LaForest


(not too proud about my last name most of the time;  they embarrass me
with their environmental arrogance too)