January 26, 2003
ICH BIN EIN IVORIAN:
Mobs attack French embassy (John Lichfield, 27 January 2003, Independent uk)Pro-government mobs, enraged by an agreement that would end the four-month-old civil war in Ivory Coast, besieged the French embassy in Abidjan yesterday and destroyed a cultural centre.The mobs, who accuse France of giving too much to rebels in peace talks near Paris, burned a fence around the embassy, attacked foreigners and looted shops and a radio station. French troops used tear gas to disperse a group trying to storm their military base in the city. The violence subsided later after the President, Laurent Gbagbo, begged his supporters to await his return from Paris.
Such are the wages of unilateralism. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 26, 2003 9:35 PM
Despite your comment a couple weeks ago
about how Ivory Coast is a Christian nation,
the rebels are, for the most part, Moslems.
France is trying to buy off her enemies by
sacrificing her -- should be, anyhow -- friends.
Where have we seen that before?
Let the Muslims crush the French and then when they go after the Christians we'll send in the Rangers. It's the best of both worlds.
Posted by: oj at January 27, 2003 7:18 AMIn the movies that's how it would be, but in real life it's more likely that the French will weaken the Christians and then pull out just when the Muslims look most threatening.
Posted by: pj at January 27, 2003 8:04 AM