It is good to hate the French
In the year 800, Charlemagne, or Karl der Grosse if you prefer, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III. This was not Charlemagne's preferred title, however, as the crowning was little more than a naked attempt at a Church-imposed stricture on his power. But the power of Carolo augosto did not hail from the pope, but instead from his lordship over the Franks, and, to a lesser extent, the Lombards.
But the power of the Carolingian Franks did not stay united for long. When Charlemagne's heir, Louis the Pious, died 40 years later, the kingdom was riven in two. Louis II, the German, ruled over the eastern Franks, while Lothar claimed the west. The Franks, now divided into French and German variants and fought their first of many civil wars - two of the most notorious being World War I and World War II.
Still, the dream of Pax Carolingus lives on, even today, 1,203 years later. What centuries of failed Italian adventures, what the ignominious ends of Frederick Barbarossa and Napoleon did not teach, clearly cannot be learned. That Chirac and Schroeder are no more than infected pimples on the buttocks of Frankish history in comparison with these historical giants does not, however, change the fact that once again, the Franks are attempting to impose their will on their recalcitrant neighbors.
As I have written before, the European Union is nothing more than an attempt by French and German fascists to achieve by stealth what Napoleon and Hitler tried to do by force. Profoundly undemocratic despite its pretensions, the EU regularly violates its own rules and procedures any time the Old European duo finds them troublesome. Witness the way that Chirac and Schroeder made free to throw around the notion of European opposition to the ongoing Anglo-Turkic-American action against Iraq despite the fact that the matter had not even been discussed in the EU's facade of a parliament.
And, of course, the fact that the leaders of the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal were reduced to writing an open letter to express their support for U.S. policy on Iraq only goes to show that the French and German leaders have exactly the same respect for freedom and representative government formerly demonstrated by their socialist and imperialist forebears.
The current rift with France and Germany is only the first of many conflicts toward which the United States is headed. In the distant future, I expect that far more than words will be exchanged. The heirs of Charlemagne will not go quietly into history's dark night, and the ease with which the ominous walls of union have been quietly erected around Europe indicates that despite their seeming weakness, the new Eurofascists will make for a more dangerous opponent in the long term than the dysfunctional Arab monarchies.
There are, of course, many other reasons to loathe the Axis of Weasels, particularly the French. No nation which has inflicted Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean-Paul Sartre on the world should hold its head high, but to lionize both pathetic cretins as intellectual giants is simply scandalous. No nation which took the American revolutionary cry for freedom and twisted it into the sadistic mayhem of Jacobin murder should ever lecture anyone on national morality.
But most of all, no nation which owes its very freedom to an unallied savior should dare to even think of refusing to come to the aid of its treaty-bound allies. The Axis of Weasels have shown conclusively that nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests. The Iraqi conflict notwithstanding, it is time for Americans to recognize this and end the disgusting and expensive charade of our ties to both NATO and the United Nations.
United, we stand for freedom, liberty and justice for all. America needs no other ally than the truth. He who will not stand with us can stand against us and be doomed.