NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE!

The French - who wouldn't send a single soldier to Iraq to help liberate the Iraqis from Saddam, or (once Saddam was ousted) to help secure Iraq for democracy - has had troops in Cote Ivoire for months, (ASIDE: with little positive effect - so what makes ANYONE think they could help out against the Jihadoterrorists in Iraq!?).

Why in the Cote Ivoire of all places? Could it be because the Cote Ivoire produces 43% of the world's CHOCOLATE? Could it be that CHOCOALTE is something that the French think is worth dying for - or killing for?

MAYBE THAT'S WHY THERE AREN'T ANY INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR PARISIANS TAKING TO THE BARRICADES TO PROTEST THIS FOREIGN MILITARY MISADVENTURE. ONE IN WHICH EIGHT FRENCH SOLDIERS HAVE ALREADY DIED. PERHAPS THIS IS WHY THERE ARE NO SIGNS PROCLAIMING: "NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE!" AND WHY THERE IS NO OUTRAGE.

Evidently, the French value chocolate more than oil. Or moral consistency. Or "Universal Human Rights" - (to borrow an Eleanor Roosevelt phrase which was once held in reverenece by the UN ...).

So, this means that Richard Boucher - chief spokeman of the USA Department Of State - was right when he referred to France, Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg - (who at the time were openly if not brazenly conspiring to foil U.S. efforts to oust Saddam, and were actively seeking to keep Saddam in power) - as "the chocolate makers."

Actually, Cote Ivoire has had something of a civil war going on since 2002; the north is under control of rebels. Oh... coincidently, that's where the Muslims live (50% of the Ivoirians population. Oh, get this: the government in the south has accused France of aiding the Muslim rebels. WHAT!?!?!? France and Jihadoterrorists working together!? Sacre BLEU! Not again!? Yes: AGAIN!

The civil war in Cote Ivoire may really be just another battlefield of the Global War against Jihadoterrorism. The Muslim rebels in the north (and their French allies) may be fighting for Jihad - and not merely control of the world's chocolate.

Jihadoterrorism (and NOT oil or cocoa!) is why we went into Iraq - and why we may - over the next two decades - have to invade other countries in other continents - like Cote Ivoire (or The Sudan, or Kenya, or Nigeria - all African countries which have had serious attacks inflicted on them by Jihadoterrorists).

And while I worry about the spread of the GWOT, Parisans worry about the price of chocolate.

UPDATE: It seems the major industrial chocolate users and the chocolate markets are geeting jittery... I suggest they call their friend in the Elysee Palace and ask him to deploy all the military assets of the entire Confectionery-Military-Industrial Complex of Belgium and France and Luxembourg in order to save this vital Western interest!