What is going on in France these days? Recently the French government has been uncharacteristically bellicose with regard to the Iranian crisis. Calling an end to diplomatic negotiations with Iran and calling for tough action to confront the Iranian threat (though the tough action they propose is still rather timid), now the French are threatening to use nuclear weapons? Earlier today, the French government made it clear in no uncertain terms that France stood ready to respond to any terrorist attack with the use of nuclear weapons.

What has happened in France is the realization that years of appeasement and turn style immigration has left the French state extremely vulnerable. That vulnerability was made evident with the devastating riots that occurred last fall, largely at the hands of Islamic immigrants. Now witness the danger that is Iran. The country is developing ICBMs capable of targeting Europe, they have announced their desire to “wipe Israel off the map” and now they are moving ahead with a clandestine Nuclear weapons program. These events surely have the French welfare state in utter panic. France clearly realizes that if Iran becomes a nuclear power, its only a question of time before Islamic radicals around the world begin threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

Jacques Chirac, who took it upon himself to make this dire pledge, noted that “Against a regional power, our choice would not be between inaction or annihilation.” In the present state of geopolitics, however, annihilation is a very real danger for all of us, if terrorists gain access to nuclear weapons. For this very reason Iran’s flirtation with nuclear power is extremely disconcerting. Perhaps France has awoken from its slumber. In reality, however, it will take more than UN sanctions to change the minds of the mullahs in Tehran, there must be a genuine belief that Iran itself is in danger and even then there is no certainty that these radicals will pursue a rational course of action, lest we forget their credo: submit, convert or die.
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