Annoy Mouse — thanks for the translation. Look — I’m not wanting to gainsay any help the insufferable French are giving to these desperate people right now — we all need to do something to help them, but the French are so hopelessly arrogant and congenitally obnoxious, I just have to call them on this. The translation you provide is a perfect example — notice the way they puff up the real number of personnel they’re sending to this unmitigated catastrophe: they repeat the 400 number twice, perhaps to convey the sense that, if added up, the total number is nearer 1000. Do we add the first 400, then the “about 60″ personnel, then the “sixty male nurses”, then the 400 again? I’m sure not. Maybe it’s lost in translation, but I’m pretty sure the French are sending, according to this article, about 400 personnel. Perhaps this is their first installment, but the cowardly nation which is spearheading the formation of the EU neo-Soviet Empire, which aspires to be the other polarity in the world AGAINST America, is of little use at all in the world, and the architect of much of what is wrong in the world. It would be refreshing to hear a frog admit it once in a while, and climb off their eternal high-horse as exemplified by a certain poster who shall soon, no doubt, attempt to cause a tremor in this thread the charming malapropism cum smiley faces.

Haiti is a nation which truly indicts French colonialism. I usually reject this threadbare (usually Leftist) accusation about the badness of colonialization by European powers, but not in the case of the French. Almost everywhere they have placed their historic and rapine jackboot they have left wastelands, horrors, and devastating corruption. They spread it like a disease. It is one reason I label France “the Latter Day Whore of Babylon”. (if I knew how to post a little emoticon, I’d do a pimp smiley face…)

Anyway, compare France’s totally lacking contribution (12 tons of humanitarian aid — ARE THEY KIDDING!?!?!?) to this, and from Reuters, no less:

FACTBOX-U.S. military mobilizes thousands for Haiti relief

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14193646.htm

Source: Reuters
Jan 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. military is mobilizing thousands of soldiers, sailors and Marines along with members of the Air Force and Coast Guard for relief efforts in Haiti.

In addition to this, thousands of other Americans are flocking to the island from the 40 states, as they always do in every catastrophe — both NGOs and GOs alike. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect the contigent from any small state in the Union outshines France’s contribution by a country mile. Not France-bashing – just telling it like it is.