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cjd:

--- Quote from: MassuhDGoodName on October 20, 2006, 11:35:35 PM ---France, in my humble opinion, gets a bad rap in terms of their politics, etc... .

I admire much of French life and culture.

It is difficult for us here in the U.S. to conceive of how the entire world would appear to us were we to be sandwiched between Germany, Spain & England, and if we had fought numerous major wars, not the least of which WWI & WWII on our very own soil.

Many people claim that France has "always been Anti-Semitic", but I don't consider them any different than Britain, or the U.S. in this respect.



 

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Here is one of the few times I disagree with you Massuh. France is a country with deep historical culture however the France that has existed since after WW1 is another story. France is a country that is always to the contrary and mostly when it comes to dealings with the United States. I think its basically the fact that America became the dominant power in the world after WW1 and it sort of relegated France to the dust bin of smaller more inconsequential countries. Even in the colonial times the only time France ever helped  America  was to get back at its bitter enemy Brittan. In a manner of speaking America has always given  France the respect a younger person would give an older more worldly person however America has got nothing in return from France except a kick in the ass time after time. They have back room dealed America at every pass  and have cozied up to some of the most dispicable countries in the world in the process of doing it. If the Bush administration did anything right during his administration it was to show France just where they stand on the ladder of importance in world affairs. I guess they dont  like the appointed spot because old Jacques Chirac seems very unhappy. I guess I would be also  if I lost out on all that oil for food money.
Many years ago I worked with a French fellow he had been here in America for some time and became an American citizen but always referred to himself as being French. We worked in a place where we could see the concord suppersonic plane leaving Kennedy Airport at about noon time each day . This old bird would go out like clock work and practically stand at attention  watching this thing fly over. He would say look how advanced France is they have a plane like that. He was that proud of France. Well when the day came that Ronald Reagan asked France for the use of their air space to bomb Libya and France declined my old friend ceased to be a Frenchman and I never really saw him watch the Concord the same way again. I guess he finally saw the true France.

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