November 11 - Fountains of Blood

I was unable to post for almost three days. Today, November 11, browsing through François Desouche, I find several articles and videos relevant to the commemoration of the WWI armistice. In fifty cities throughout France, protests against the war in Afghanistan took the form of a reminder of the blood that has been shed by French soldiers. Red color was poured into the fountains in Paris, below:



And in Lyons below:


This graphic display of anti-war sentiment was the initiative of the Bloc Identitaire, the association of regional groups who oppose Islam. According to the Bloc:

"Fighting Islamization is a duty. But it is here at home, in the ghettoes, that we have to fight! Fifty French soldiers killed, is fifty deaths too many: We demand the return of our soldiers from Afghanistan!"

Novopress, the news agency for the Bloc, sounds off in a bitter article blaming the United States for the continuation of the useless war:

(...) Diplomats are there to start wars, they say, soldiers to finish them. On the condition that our vital interests are at stake. Such is not the case in Afghanistan. Contrary to all his campaign promises, Nicolas Sarkozy reenforced the French commitment for no other reason than to obey American demands. For "this is an American war", said General Desportes clearly, (...) in Le Monde on July 2. 2010. An American war that reenforces the integration of our army into the imperialist plans of NATO. Nicolas Sarkozy - the man who spits on the tomb of De Gaulle! (...)

The article goes on to say that American geo-strategic interests and oil are the real reasons for the war.

The readers at François Desouche (at least the first 40 or 50 comments) approve of the Bloc's initiative.

My only comment is that America has had inferior leaders who were not able to see the futility of converting an Islamic country into a democracy. As for Obama, he, like his predecessor (and like Sarkozy for that matter), is continuing the war all the while bowing down (literally) to the Muslims. The initial entry of America into Afghanistan was entirely justified considering what had happened on 9/11. But a good commander-in-chief recognizes the folly of pursuing a chimera at the cost of human lives, and the even greater folly of underestimating the enemy. We have not had good commanders-in-chief in recent decades. Ironically, it was a weakened and morally ambiguous America that France decided to follow. De Gaulle would have had more sense.

We have to fight Islam. But not by creating a modern-day Waterloo from which America emerges even weaker and more humiliated than before. The only way we can win the war is by closing American borders to Muslims, and by allowing the whole truth about this political and religious ideology, so far removed from our way of life, to be known in an atmosphere free of taboos and political correctness. France should do the same, assuming it is not too late.