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Submitted by dantoujours, Apr 12, 2007 22:57

Frankly, I am baffled by the article and don't see the connection between these events and the supposed malaise that exists in France.

France24, a government funded news channel is now broadcasting in Arabic. The United States has had a government funded radio and TV channel called the "Voice of America" which has broadcasted in Arabic and a in a few dozen other languages to different parts of the world for 60 years.

Secondly, while the French may be a bit more sceptical of the policies of the State of Israel, that is very different than being anti-semitic. The US has a pretty long history of anti-semitism with more than a few neo-Nazi and KKK groups still running around and over 1,000 anti-semitic hate crimes that were reported to the FBI last year according to their statistics. People in glass houses...

France's other sin evidently, is that the Louvre opened a branch in the Middle East, but the Smithsonian also has international branches, field offices and exhibitions overseas also, so is the U.S. also selling out its national identity.

Somehow France's actions here underscore its malaise yet America's does not? I just don't get the connection between these two events and France's alleged cultural and economic decline.

Finally, does an American really want to comment on France "cozied up to folks most everyone else seems to have rightly assessed as enemies" when the US maintains a cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia an even less democratic country with worse human rights violations, where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from and the principle exporter of Wahhabi Islam?

It's articles like this that make it hard to take American journalism seriously.

Dan
Gatineau, Québec Canada

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