France and the Ivory Coast

Why is nobody talking about the recent French aggression in the Ivory Coast which saw the 11-plane IC Air Force destroyed? Do the French priorities seem a bit out of whack? They will take aggressive action against a bunch of thugs who threaten their chocolate supply, but not the islamo-fanatics who want to set off a nuclear weapon in a western city. In typical fashion, some Frenchmen living in the Ivory Coast want to run away from danger. Why does the UN have more people working in this country than in Iraq? I think this situation is completely illustrative of the current state of the world. The French and UN want peace with cocoa distributors, and will use force to achieve it, but will appease and negotiate indefinitely with islamo fanatics while they saw heads off of living human beings.

Here is an opinion piece from the Jerusalem Post wondering why Chirac loves dictators.