More on America's Plans for France

A reader sent me a link to a long article by K.R. Bolton in Foreign Policy Journal, analyzing the attempt by the American government, through its embassy in Paris and Ambassador Rivkin, to influence and ultimately control the cultural, demographic and ideological destiny of France. I have posted three times on this topic, including the most recent post based on the Wikileaks revelations. This latest article goes far in denouncing the subversive program designed as part of long term project to force the French into the "globalist" mold. I disagree with the author's assimilation of "capitalism" with "globalism" (especially in the quote from Noam Chomsky). Capitalism is not new, and not specifically American, though we certainly gave it prominence. Capitalism is not comfortable with Socialism. Globalism, on the other hand, is a liberal movement in which capitalism is no longer connected to a nation, but is the means by which nations are dissolved or denatured, robbed of their sovereignty, and forced to bed down with their enemies. Globalism, therefore, resembles Communism much more than it resembles capitalism, which claims a work ethic and a chance to enrich oneself by one's own efforts in one's own nation. Globalism purports to do these things, but on condition that the nations renounce their nationhood and bring in massive numbers of foreigners who must be regarded as equals, or else. I have not read this article carefully, and cannot attest to it's accuracy on all points, but I saw this passage on the Front National that shows that liberal American politicians (both Democrats and spineless Republicans) would not welcome a Le Pen victory:

Nonetheless, given France’s historical role of maintaining sovereignty in the face of US interests, even in the current time with its opposition to the war against Iraq, France remains one of the few potentially annoying states in Europe. An added concern is that the French, despite their acceptance of McDonald’s, and their liking for American trash TV, will translate the remnants of their “xenophobia” into the election to Office of a stridently anti-globalist party, as reflected in the electoral ups and downs of the Front National, whose policy would not be in accord with either US foreign policy, or with privatization and cultural Americanization. Hence the Front National, like other anti-globalist parties, can be attacked by red-herring slogans about “racism” and “hate” to deflect from the real concern which is anti-globalization. This is a major reason for Rivkin’s far-reaching subversive and interventionist program to assimilate Muslims into French society, which in so doing would also have the result of fundamentally transforming French consciousness into a more thoroughly cosmopolitan mold. The intention is clear enough in the Rivkin Embassy documents where it is stated that the Embassy will monitor the effects of the “outreach” program on the “decrease in popular support for xenophobic political parties and platforms.”

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The photo of Washington and Lafayette recalls other phases of French-American relations. From Wikipedia.