Patrick EMIN wrote:

> There is a difference though between the way french can be cynical
> and the way the US government is. Thanks to a long tradition of human
> right respect in France dating back to the "Si鐵le des Lumi鑽es",

I am pretty sure Maximilien Robespierre was around during the siecle des
lumieres. How can I say "La Terreur" in English?

> we
> almost never
> pulverise someone before asking him whether he is innocent or culprit
> like the US and its israeli accomplice are routinely doing.

Indeed. Just ask some French Jews.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New
York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White
House."
 - Columbia University professor Eric Foner in the London Review of
Books, on the attacks of 11 September 2001. A new study has recently
suggested that the inferno that destroyed the World Trade Center and
killed thousands of innocents was indeed more frightening than the
rhetoric of the Bush administration.