Why France may be on the sidelines

In answer to Susan Spano’s question in “Life Launched, Lessons Learned” [Dec. 26]: “I wondered how France could ever fail to stand behind the U.S. in such matters as the war in Iraq”: Well, moral outrage, perhaps, on the part of the French at the palpable wrongness of our preemptive strike at a nation that was not an imminent threat to the U.S.? Some revulsion regarding our thoughtless rush to war on the part of a nation that knew firsthand the horror of invasion by an occupying force? Something to do with civilian deaths caused by the U.S. invasion, perhaps?

Nancy Finney

Visalia