Submitted by Myron, Apr 19, 2007 05:22

I'm by no means an advocate of French rule of anther country. But did the drive to drive out the French occupiers include any thought or planning for what would follow their departure? I have nothing but questions. Was expelling the french so important that it require such explosive violence to make that happen? Already by 1965 nonviolent uprisings lead by Ghandhi and Martin Luther King were bringing about change in court rulings, and legislation to address racial inequity problems originaly triggered by supreme court rulings Marbury vs. Madison, and Plessy vs. Ferguson. Success in nonviolent confrontation convinced an overwhelming majority that change was to be enforced by the will of the people. People of all races, wanted a responce from the judiciary, and the legislative bodies. They did not want chaos and revolution. Nor did they want revenge. Was ridding the French colonial domination a result of French brutality or Islamic jihad? Did the French corrupt the system on the way out? Could they be trusted to or permitted to help with the tansition to a government by consent of the governed? Or was Che Guevara and Fidel Castro the role models for revolution. Because this looks to be a similar situation as to what has been inflicted on Cuba by its totalitarian regime. And no, I'm not talking about the fabricated Myth of Castro and Guevara, perpetrated by NYTimes and other French Newspapers. In his time, Yassar Araphat, himself an Egyptian, wore the green fatigues of the Socialist Totalitarian Revolutionary, and counted on succour, arms, training, and cash from Soviet Union, as did Nassar. Who financed the original Algierian revolt? What documents were written to found the liberayed state? Where are the statesmen who forged the constitution of a state governed by consent of the governed? I'm cynical, but were these revolutionaries illiterate warlords? Where was this expusion of the French supposed to lead, except to the cleansing Fire of Sharia? Of poverty and absolute power for either a bourgeois elite or a fundamentalist elite? Was the UN notified? [Not that that would make any difference, we all know the UN is the agency of totalitarian anti-christian regimes throughout the world]. What was the gross domestic product of Algeria, (and for that matter Cuba), before and after revolution? Where the means of change has only one offspring, that of violence, where on earth else can it lead?

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