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<In addition to Religious Right views on other countries' sexual
morality, big government, and godlessness, there is also the abortion
issue that comes into play in the French case. The drug RU-486 is
known as "the French abortion pill." The Religious Right here regards
it as a chemical weapon being used to commit genocide against
"unborn children." They adhere to a view that life (as a person)
begins at conception, and that aborting even an embryo is murder.
Because France has liberal abortion laws, and is regarded as the
inventor of RU-486, it probably gets a special "evil" status in the
minds of the US Religious Right.>
Very interesting Aaron, I wasn't aware of this, and I suspect it is a major
element. I guess I thought economics because much of the French antipathy
towards the US is economics-based, stemming from post-war annoyances about
US economic imperialism (coca-colaization, or some such phrase, IIRC
originated on France).
I'd be interested to hear anyone's explanation for why so many of the people
campaigning bitterly about the ilegality and inappropriateness of the Hague
trial of Slobodan Milosevic appear to be Americans. Personally, I feel this
kind of international court is the way to go for judging the likes of
Milosevic, bin Laden (if he's ever caught) etc., but there do some to be
some serious inconsistencies in the way the tribunal has been set up. Even
so, I can't work out why Americans would be campaigning on behalf of
Milosevic whose time in power was one of the great tragedies of 20th century
Europe, but they've been all over the British media complaining about the
trial.
[Incidentally does anyone think that Ken Lay should be given the Camp X-Ray
treatment to get him to open up? A larger number of people in the British
elite are knee-deep in the Enron affair including the head of the Press
Complaints Commission- the main regulatroy body of the print media-, the
chairman of the BBC, not to mention a number of MPs as well]
Vincent
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