The Most Righteous War Of All?
- February 13, 2003
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Garret at dangerousmeta! points to an editorial by Pavel Felgenhauer in The Moscow Times says that of all wars so far, the upcoming war against Saddam could be “the most righteous of them all”. He points out the views of the Soviets on the Franco-German alliance, what could’ve happened if WW2 would’ve ended like the Gulf War and bashes the French (along with others) for their strong support of the Saddam regime.
The Soviet Politburo hoped that some day the Franco-German axis, initiated by French President Charles de Gaulle some 40 years ago, would break up NATO and deliver Western Europe into Soviet hands.
In the 1960s, the West did not disintegrate. Gaullist France itself became isolated—neither Germany nor anyone else in Western Europe was ready to seriously undermine solidarity with the United States in the face of tens of thousands of Soviet tanks in Central Europe.