Régis Debray: "France in the 21st century in the face of war, the eternal return of the same mistakes"

Keeping it simple is difficult.

Marx can help.

I hear the Marx Brothers.

“A 7-year-old child would solve this problem!”

Exclaims Groucho

as a marshal, leaning over a staff map.

A silence, then:

"Bring a 7 year old child."

What would this ingenuous see by leaning over France valiantly warring in Africa?

First, that a dear and old country for which

the death of two soldiers in operation is a national trauma, with a presidential speech and a moving ceremony, has reached, in

its civil society, a point in its historical trajectory and to such a degree

of civilization that it is unreasonable for him to wage war anywhere.

In 14-18, a day with 1000 killed on the front was a good day and, at 10,000, in an offensive, a bad day.

For the first time in two centuries, France is ruled by

a generation that has not known war, civil, world or colonial.

For our young managers, spoiled children of history,

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