Niles Caulder
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« on: August 05, 2004, 12:05:46 AM » |
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The real resentment of France is that they could have been us: a World Superpower. It's their own historical baggage that fuels their competitive attitude towards us. They feel they envisioned the underpinnings of Western Civilization and belong as its cultural and political hub. They'll never be over the fact Napolean was vanquished. (Would there ever have been such a thing as Fascism had he not been?)
There is no force on Earth that is going to make France humble enough for us to be able to play completely straight with them, so long as our real sphere of influence conflicts with the one they envision as what could have been...or what ought to be again....
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