Draco
2008-01-20 05:14:09
” A quick look at the map of the Paris Metro, and its evocative station names like Austerlitz and Solferino, should suffice to remind the casual observer of the continuing resonance of French battles of yesteryear”. Actually it reminds me of the old observation that France’s greatest general was a foriegner (Napoleon was from an Italian family living in Corsica) and their greatest soldier was a teenage girl (Joan of Arc). Ha ha! But seriously, they might really have a respectabel military establishment – certainly they would have to compare favourably to the once-fine British Army and Navy which is despised in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
Do the Gulf states really fuel electrical power plants with oil? Why not natural gas?
