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**santorio** · 10-11-2008, 09:59 PM

The French were once our closest ally -- without them we would have lost the Reolutionary War.

During WWII when the French Vichy government capitulated to the Nazis many attitudes towards France were changed. (And athough British animosity towards the French goes back centuries, some Brits completely blame what they call France's cowardice in WWII for the subsequent full-bore Nazi attack on Britain.) Much (too much?) American blood was spent winning back the soil that many of the French were unwilling to fight and die for.

Now, as Rumsfeld so crudely put it, to the Neo-Cons the French and France are part of "Old Europe" -- both are deemed unnecessary and unhelpful in the New World Order.

10-11-2008, 09:59 PM	#21
santorio Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	The French were once our closest ally -- without them we would have lost the Reolutionary War. During WWII when the French Vichy government capitulated to the Nazis many attitudes towards France were changed. (And athough British animosity towards the French goes back centuries, some Brits completely blame what they call France's cowardice in WWII for the subsequent full-bore Nazi attack on Britain.) Much (too much?) American blood was spent winning back the soil that many of the French were unwilling to fight and die for. Now, as Rumsfeld so crudely put it, to the Neo-Cons the French and France are part of "Old Europe" -- both are deemed unnecessary and unhelpful in the New World Order.
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