Freddy Gray writes for The Spectator (U.K.) that France has become the new go-to nation for sending peace-keepers to world trouble spots, a real favorite with neocons who once called the French "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." That was then, now is another story entirely.
Nowhere in his long peroration does Gray mention the advantage France has in its eight regiments of la legion etrangere francaise, the French Foreign Legion. However much Gray may wish to ignore it, the Legion has long been France's "gendarme d’Afrique," ideal for keeping former colonies in line.
