Don't you just love the Europeans? Several of the old school powers over there, France included, spent much of the last year and a half deriding the United States for Iraq and the war against terrorism. They said that acting preemptively was immoral and blah blah blah. Now that terrorism has hot Europe, they continue to heap scorn upon the US for preemptive action on the one hand, and on the other:

"The French had kept a group of Moroccan-born militants under surveillance for some time, but had no specific cause to arrest them when the police struck in dawn raids on Monday, seizing 13 men with suspected links to the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.

A senior French official admitted as much on Tuesday, saying "There was no evidence they were preparing an imminent attack in France." The crucial factor was that they had traveled to Afghanistan, where they learned to use weapons and make explosives.

"When they come back, they have certain ideas and certainly a technical capacity for action," the French official said.

The new French counterterrorism motto, he said, is "Every time we discover a cell, we eliminate it as a pre-emptive measure." "

Funny how what's good for France is the height of evil and an act against world peace when the United States does the same.