Bombings in Paris 'would've been a treat'

The real tragedy of the London terrorist bombings? That it didn't happen in France.

At least according to Fox News' [sic] anchor John Gibson.

Matthew Ygelsias' blog commented on Gibson's magnanimous expression of humanity.

"It would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already," Gibson is quoted as saying.

It would've been a treat for Gibson to watch France deal with terrorist carnage. I can see him chugging a beer, clucking in delight while watching men in berets attend to bloody, deformed corpses.

Digest that filth for a second.

Is this the kind of person you'd trust to bring you insight on the spread 'freedom and liberty'?

I don't expect much from Fox News [sic], but this is vile even by their gutter-level standards.

Of course, France WAS dealing with radical Islamist-inspired terrorist carnage long before 9/11 was a glint in Osama bin Laden's eye. That's why the French were able to make the distinction between the war on terrorism and the unrelated aggression against Iraq.

As petulant as the French sometimes have a reputation for being, fortunately they are not quite so juvenile as the Fox yapping head. Rather than cutting off their nose to spite their face like Gibson, Paris is cooperating closely with American intelligence forces on the terrorism question. This is despite the widespread and gratuitous French-bashing that has consumed the most vocal parts of American society.

Ygelsias pointed to this article in the Washington Post noting that France is arguably the most important American ALLY in fighting terrorism.

We can thank our lucky stars that the French have been mature enough to ignore the infantile 'freedom fries' and 'surrender monkeys' taunts.

On the other hand, French celebrity-intellecutal Bernard-Henri Lévy says that of his long trip across America: "I met hundreds, maybe 1,000 people and maybe more. I never, never met one single man or woman in the eye of whom I felt the slightest Francophobia, despise, hatred for being French."

So many the French-haters are really a tiny, extremist but very vocal minority. Maybe Americans as a whole are more civilized then their chattering class.