Originally posted by melon:
With comments like this still being brought up today, it is no wonder the French loathe the English-speaking world. The French just could not stack up against German militarism of World War I and II.
But that was a long time ago. The world--and America--has changed a lot since then.
Melon
From the Wise Man's own list of 1999:
1. They surrendered Paris to the Germans without firing a shot. Then, to the tune of the U.S. Third Army?s tank treads, they marched back in and ?liberated? it. Then they had the l?chutzpah to insist on being one of the Big Four victors after the War.
2. During Operation Torch, the would-be ?victorious? French fired on U.S. forces trying to land in North Africa. (In Casablanca, the French battleship
Jean Bart duked it out with the USS
Massachusetts. The chowder-heads whupped the cheese-eaters). While they did fire on our forces, they didn?t do it for long, being French. After the War, the generals responsible claimed they weren?t trying very hard because they liked the Allies -- but, still, they had to keep up appearances. Even victors can?t be too careful.
3. When the U.S. needed to bomb Libya in retaliation for a terrorist attack on American soldiers, the French refused to let us fly through their airspace. Perhaps they get confused when they hear planes overhead and don?t have any German generals to escort to a shelter.
4. Sticking us with Vietnam.
5. There are more French people who think they fought in the resistance than there are babyboomers who claim they were at Woodstock.
6. The spy in NATO headquarters is rumored to be French.
7. And speaking of NATO, for most of the Cold War they wanted nothing to do with it. Somehow they thought it was French resolve holding back the Warsaw Pact.
8. And speaking of the Cold War, Fran?ois Mitterand tried to keep East Germany a separate socialist country.
9. You can?t swing a baguette without hitting a French intellectual who thinks America is imperialistic, and yet I don?t think it was the Peace Corps teaching kids in Djibouti to say ?Our forefathers, the Gauls.? And I don?t seem to remember Vietnam being in ?American Indochina.?
10. They distract us from the real threat of Belgian hegemony.
Now, before you complain, just remember that laughter is the best medicine.
(Of course, if that IS true, France is suffering from nation-wide drug abuse in the form of Jerry Lewis.)