@ fatboy
- Out of practical considerations to evaluate facts i first evaluate the source, it is quicker. Otherwise i might be flying to Brazil, in order to check if the treasure of the Amazons is really buried there as it says in my issue of Donald Duck magazine.

-Actually I detest organizations like The Heritage Foundation and their manipulation of fact to further their neo-conservative nationalist paranoia. You don't believe they are manipulation? I'll give you one example: In the article THF quotes 35 incidents and then describe only the three worst, leaving reader with the suggestion that all 35 were of similar magnitude. Stuff for people who want their opinions reinforced, not tested.

- The minister in the interview admits France made a grave mistake in Rwanda. He also says it is both accused of interference with and abandonement of Africa. Sort of logical. All European countries with colonies from the 16th/17th/18th century have (had) problems leaving these countries in a stable condition. The US acts like they have just invented colonialism. "Those who don't understand history are bound to repeat it."

- I am sort of neutral towards France's foreign policy. I did agree with them not to join the US in the invasion of Iraq.

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