How did the French manage to lose the Algerian war?
>>664521
way to brutal in their methods that the populace couldn't support it
>>664521
They're French
>>664521
Guerrilla warfare and growing international/domestic condemnation
>>664521
Have you ever considered that the FNL won?
>>664521
The French public would never allow the levels of brutality required to subdue the population.
Won military, lost politically.
You can't just exterminate the whole country.
Won militarily, lost politically.
The French public didn't like the idea of their military torturing.
>>665244
Really? They were torturing 4 years before they lost with hexagon approval
Arab freedom fighters won
>>664521
It's the same reason the US lost Vietnam. There's was a tacit alliance between France's left wing party and the ALF.
This is the history of all wars between western powers and poor countries since early-mid 20th century. Left-wing parties and liberation (terrorist) group ally against their mutual enemy: the right-wing party.
>>667529
>Dolchstoßlegende
>Also suggesting the US has any left wing parties
>>667542
Listen Hans, just because you moved so far to the Left doesn't mean that
>economically
an expansion of socialized services, various regulations, taxes, tolls, fines, fees, and subsidies for various failed ventures-be they industrial (solar) on the household-level (mortgages for the low-income) or personal ( fine and liberal arts majors)- while
>socially
simultaneously working on expanding the social services, affirmative action efforts, and efforts against "discrimination and harassment", incentivizing single motherhood, undergirding the ability of the poor to have multiple children on the taxpayers' dime, decriminalizing or not enforcing against public urination (as in NYC) or defecation (as in San Fran) because it 'discriminates against the destitute and minorities', also diminishing 3 centuries of precedence supporting federalism as it relates to abortion and marriage, while supporting illegal immigrant amnesty, expanded flow of refugees, and mass immigration from the third world
>foreign policy
and on top of that having a lukewarm foreign policy, making little effort in protecting our capitalist allies (and tax/business havens) for fear on stepping on KSA Russia and China's toes, waffling back and forth based on public opinion between invasion and withdrawal, ending up in a middle-ground drone war, disagreements with top Pentagon brass, and sending JSOC and other special forces units to places where war was never even declared.
>Conc
So based on those three pillars of politics, Democrats are not only Left wing, they are further to the left than they have been in a while. You don't need to be Marx when you can be Nick Clegg or Bernie Sanders
>>665194
>Won military, lost politically.
this
and De Gaulle didn't want millions of arabs becoming french since the alternative to independance was making of algeria a part of France. nowaday France is becoming algeria
Vous n'avez pas voulu de l’Algérie française, vous aurez la france algérienne
>>667529
>Left-wing parties and liberation (terrorist) group ally against their mutual enemy: the right-wing party.
except the left wing started to send military troops and torture in algeria,
