As if that's a bad thing...

The French would make me laugh if their decisions weren't so costly to real live human beings. The Foreign Minister of France, as presented in this article, proclaims his worry about all the bad things happening in Iraq...ya know, death and all that other stuff that happens when people go to war.

This has been a growing problem among most of the Western European countries for some time; they don't see the good guys and the bad guys, they just see "a total loss of bearings" in the whole sordid affair.

A loss of bearings...yeah that's it, it has nothing to do with a group of people wishing the Dark Ages back upon all of us, who use children as weapons, who cheer and proclaim martyrdom for a couple of monsters that slaughter a pregnant woman and her four small children; none of that is reason for concern, it's just the overall not niceness of it all, on both sides, that has the French Foreign Minister worried.

He then felt it necessary to proclaim that "There will be no French soldiers in Iraq, not now and not later."

What's the old joke that can be applied to any conflict anywhere in the world?

How can you quickly end the war in Iraq?

Send in the French; they'll surrender the next day.