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I wonder how much of the "Frenchness" of the attacks that Paris has experienced is to do with Syria being post-WW1 French mandate? I suspect not much - but par
by elthran 11y ago
I wonder how much of the "Frenchness" of the attacks that Paris has experienced is to do with Syria being post-WW1 French mandate?
I suspect not much - but part of me does wonder why they're the main EU country involved in the conflict.
- cm2187 11y agoI am not a specialist but my intuition is that history does play a role in France's hostility to Al Assad. France has been traditionally close to Lebanon and the Syrian sponsored violence and terrorism didn't go well with the French diplomacy (Chirac in particular was personally outraged by the assassination of Hariri). But I doubt it has anything to do with ISIS. It's a relatively recent creation, and mostly a Saudi inspired organisation so I doubt there is much to do with France. I think France is mostly involved because they are the largest western contributor country to ISIS in term of jihadists.