Le Monde Editorial: 'Bush's Mistakes'

[icymist]

September 11, 2006, 1:04 PM EDT


PARIS -- "We are all Americans," France's Le Monde newspaper proclaimed on Sept. 12, 2001, speaking for millions worldwide in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Five years later, the respected daily carried a very different message Monday: Its lead editorial was titled "Bush's Mistakes."

The paper's assessment five years ago reflected a collective shock and sympathy felt in France and many nations that has given way to a much more complex view of the United States since then, particularly after the war in Iraq.

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"Since Sept. 11, America has not, it's true, been attacked on its territory, but the world has changed for the worse," it wrote.

"The goal remains to destroy al-Qaida and delegitimize its ideology. But the task is substantially tougher. In five years, the United States has pushed the world toward the clash of civilizations al-Qaida had wanted."
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[TahitiNut]

1. Le Monde is fairly conservative and pro-establishment

Thus, it's telling that they'd portray (accurately, imho) the Bush Regime as worsening global conditions and making progress in delegitimizing al Qaeda and such secular Islamic extremism.

[Drum]

2. Indeed!

"In five years, the United States has pushed the world toward the clash of civilizations al-Qaida had wanted."

Despite all of their "think-tanks," the GOP players cannot realize how they have been played, manipulated toward this hostile and dark state by phantoms who only use a biannual expenditure on a few measly audio- and videocassettes. They are watching the US become fiscally and morally bankrupt in a race to the bottom, and surely must be laughing.

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