Glenn_Wilson said:
Echoes said:
To this day the role of the United States of America in the Rwanda massacre is unacknowledged and largely unknown here in surrender-monkey land.
The USA supported Kagame's RPF (Tutsi) who started to invade Rwanda from Uganda in 1990. Kagame most probably ordered the assassination of President Habyarimana in 1994, knowing full well what the consequences would have been. The Hutus had more (or at least as many) victims during the 1994 massacres than the Tutsis had (even the third ethnic, the Twas, had victims) and the RPF have killed Hutus just like the Interahamwe's. But the objective for the US, Canada, Uganda, South Africa (yes Mandela's SF) or the UK was elsewhere. Rwanda was just a springboard for the invasion of neighbouring Congo and pillaging the mineral resources in Eastern Congo. Following the two Congo Wars in 1996/7 and 1998/~2006, some giant Anglophone corporations got concessions in Eastern Congo (American Mineral Field, Barrick Gold, De Beers, ...). These also directly sponsored the Rwandan/Ugandan war in the Congo.
The coltan that made up our cell phones, TV screens, etc directly comes from this exploitation of Congolese resources.
The Congo War killed 6+ million people in the Congo, including many Hutu refugees, in camps. Plus millions of raped women. The Tutsi vengeance was ruthless.
The French "Operation Turquoise" in 1994 DID end the massacre, provisionally at least. If there's one thing President Mitterrand can be praised for, it's that. That's why he later said that "France was at war with America", "A war apparently without dead and yet a war to death." They ended the massacres of both Tutsis and Hutus and did stop the FPR effort to kill refugees in the Congo. It's only when the French left that the massacre could start. Pierre Péan showed it very well.
Israel's role in the Rwandan disaster should also be remembered. For Israel, it was vital to have a strong Uganda against the Sudan. That's why they funded Museveni's movement in 1987, also supported by the Ugandan Tutsi, including Kagame. That's why Israel and the Jewish lobby was instrumental in distorting the truth about the Rwandan & Congolese tragedies ...
Are you making quotes up? I was going to tell FrenchFry there was no need to say "surrender monkey" with respect to his own country. But then you come lobbing in these bolded fake quotes.
....but...but....he is doing that only as homage to The Simpsons which as we all know he has had a long and abiding love and affection for ( it was after all voted the greatest Merican cultural icon of the 20th century so that is most understandable ( Time magazine named it the 20th century's best television series )....so homage to Merika, the creator of great culture as well... )...
...and cheese eating surrender monkeys " is "perhaps the most famous" of the coinages from The Simpsons and it "has gone on to become a journalistic cliché.".....
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....from Dr Wiki...
"Cheese-eating surrender monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for the French people. The term was coined in 1995 by Ken Keeler, a writer for the television series The Simpsons. The term has entered two Oxford quotation dictionaries. In February 2003, during the early phases of the Iraq War, the term was used by National Review journalist Jonah Goldberg. In April 1999, he previously used the term.
The term "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" first appeared in "'Round Springfield," an April 1995 episode of the American animated television show The Simpsons.[1] In the episode, budget cuts at Springfield Elementary School force the Scottish janitor, Groundskeeper Willie, to teach French. Expressing his disdain for the French people, he says to his French class in his Scottish accent: "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!"[2][3][4] On the audio commentary for the episode, executive producer Al Jean said the line was "probably" written by The Simpsons staff writer Ken Keeler.[5]
In February 2012, Keeler confirmed this in an interview, and stated that he considers it to be his best contribution to the show.[6] Jean commented that the staff did not expect the term to become widely used and never intended it as any kind of genuine political statement.[5] When "'Round Springfield" was dubbed in French, the line became "Rendez-vous, singes mangeurs de fromage" ("Surrender, you cheese-eating monkeys").[7]
Use of the term has grown outside of the United States, particularly in the United Kingdom, where The Simpsons is popular.
The term was used by Jonah Goldberg, a conservative American National Review journalist in April 1999, as the title of a column called "Top Ten Reasons to Hate the French".[8] In the run-up to and during the Iraq War, Goldberg reprised the phrase to criticize European nations and France in particular for not joining the United States in its invasion and occupation of Iraq.[1]
Ben Macintyre of Times of London wrote in August 2007, that the term is "perhaps the most famous" of the coinages from The Simpsons and it "has gone on to become a journalistic cliché."[7] The term was used by the New York Post (as "Surrender Monkeys") as the headline for its December 7, 2006, front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group and its recommendation that U.S. soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by January 2008.[9] Articles in the Daily Mail (2005 & 2009) used the term to describe France's "attitude problem"[10] and the "muted" European reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden;[11] The Daily Telegraph (November 2010) cited it in relation to Anglo-French military cooperation.[12]
In August 2013, The Independent suggested an evolution away from the term, in a headline about French-American relations over the Syrian Civil War.[13]
The term was used on an episode of Top Gear, on 4 June 2006, when former host Jeremy Clarkson used the term to describe the manufacturers of the Citroën C6. The term was previously used on Top Gear in June 2003, when Jeremy Clarkson used it to describe the handling of the Renault Clio V6.
In December 2005, the phrase was used by Nigel Farage, who said of the then–French President, Jacques Chirac, "No cheese-eating surrender monkey, he", in his unflattering comparison to then–Prime Minister Tony Blair, during a European Parliament session. The term was selected by Ned Sherrin, for inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, being introduced in the third edition in 2005.[14] It is also included in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.[15]
The term was used in Australian Parliament, on 6 March 2014, when Opposition Leader Bill Shorten described the Government of Australia as "the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Australian jobs".[16] Upon being asked to withdraw the comment, Shorten claimed the line was borrowed from an American politician, whom he could not name.[17]
The term "surrender monkeys" was again used in Australian politics, on 28 July 2014, by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, describing the Labor and Greens position on asylum seekers.[18]"
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