Reply #19: You're missing the point, [View All]

[anti-NAFTA]

France has abandoned its imperialism and has long since abandoned imperialism. What is the point of bringing it up again and again and again, if not to silence French opposition to American policies?

And France's colonization of Algeria was not bad at all. The maternal side of my family happened to be Algerian Jews. Algeria had the same social institutions for those living there as France did. Algeria wasn;'t a colony. Algeria was FRANCE. France even granted citizenship to pretty much any Algerians who wanted it, and that included my grandparents, who emigrated to France after the revolution. So when you're talking about French "imperialism" you're hitting very close to home. There is no way you can compare what the French did to the atrocities of the British and, now, the Americans.