France Invades Mali

[Caliga]

Reading this makes me want to pick up my French lessons again. 

Relax.  In French "hommes" means people, Mart, not homos.

[The Brain]

Reading this makes me want to pick up my French lessons again. 

Relax.  In French "hommes" means people, Mart, not homos.

[Eddie Teach]

There's no dishonor in a French War Boner, man.

The French are like the High Elves/Eldar army in Warhammer.

Really?

Do High Elves bathe?

[derspiess]

Do High Elves bathe?

No.  And they smoke a lot.

[The Brain]

A cool name to say with an Elvish accent is Ashton Kutcher.

[Phillip V]

Reading this makes me want to pick up my French lessons again. 

Relax.  In French "hommes" means people, Mart, not homos.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/sunday-review/the-french-way-of-war.html

[Iormlund]

There's no dishonor in a French War Boner, man.

The French are like the High Elves/Eldar army in Warhammer.

Really?

All the cheese, I guess.

[Razgovory]

Don't know why, but whenever the French are invading something in Africa, it makes me positively giddy.

Allons enfants de la patrie! 

Awww.  Euro-Nationalism.  How quaint!

[Razgovory]

Hey Derspeiss, what's the deal with the anti-French thing?

[derspiess]

Hey Derspeiss, what's the deal with the anti-French thing?

Dunno.  Aren't most people like that?  Anyway I'm not really as anti-French as you might think. I was very much pro-French during the Sarko era.  And I still wish the best for them, despite the fact that they'd just as soon watch the entire US go up in flames.

[CountDeMoney]

Hey Derspeiss, what's the deal with the anti-French thing?

Goes back to them skeeving in on derspiess' fur trade.

[Phillip V]

Jihadists’ Surge in North Africa Reveals Grim Side of Arab Spring

As the uprising closed in around him, the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa. “Bin Laden’s people would come to impose ransoms by land and sea,” he told reporters. “We will go back to the time of Redbeard, of pirates, of Ottomans imposing ransoms on boats.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/world/africa/in-chaos-in-north-africa-a-grim-side-of-arab-spring.html

In recent days, that unhinged prophecy has acquired a grim new currency. In Mali, French paratroopers arrived this month to battle an advancing force of jihadi fighters who already control an area twice the size of Germany. In Algeria, a one-eyed Islamist bandit organized the brazen takeover of an international gas facility, taking hostages that included more than 40 Americans and Europeans.

Coming just four months after an American ambassador was killed by jihadists in Libya, those assaults have contributed to a sense that North Africa — long a dormant backwater for Al Qaeda — is turning into another zone of dangerous instability, much like Syria, site of an increasingly bloody civil war. The mayhem in this vast desert region has many roots, but it is also a sobering reminder that the euphoric toppling of dictators in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt has come at a price.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, duh. The Arab Spring wasn't just Spring for students, it was Springtime for assholes, too.  That's what happens when you open all the monkey cages.

Can't wait for McCain and Graham to hang this one on Obama and his coterie of hated minority females as well.

[Eddie Teach]

Hey Derspeiss, what's the deal with the anti-French thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

[Syt]

Hey Derspeiss, what's the deal with the anti-French thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVV7e2FGpg