Vive la France!

LewRockwell.com ^ | May 4, 2002 | Michael Peirce

[Tennessee_Bob]

...the French ambassador to London complained that the world was being drawn into war over a "shitty little country."

What? Are the Germans threatening France again??

[LarryLied]

So Le Pen made some "insensitive" comments. Big deal. The Trotskyites in France and other European countries actively supported mass murder and seek to turn the entire wrold into a communist, totalitarian hell-hole. Who is worse?

While Le Pen was in the military fighting communists, the French Trotskyites were undermining his country at home. No wonder doesn't care what he says.

[Lazamataz]

If the French elect Le Pen, I will stop mocking the cheese-eating surrender monkeys who fight with their feet and f*** with their faces.

In fact, if they elect him, I will take back all my previous mocking.

[Lazamataz]

Lew has never been a libertarian. He might call himself that, but I can call myself Santa Claus, and it doesn't make it true.

(settling in on your lap) I want a sled, and a new Huffy bike, and the big yellow Tonka dump truck, and some Hot Wheels, and the GI Joe with kung-fu grip, and a Batman lunchbox, and candy, and a soccer ball, and an AM radio, and a Daisy Rough-Rider BB gun, and....

[B Knotts]

I dunno, Laz...have you been a good boy?

And, a BB gun?!? You could put an eye out with one of those, you know...

[Polybius]

.....and a Daisy Rough-Rider BB gun

You can't have one of those. You'll shoot your eye out!

[Kermit]

" The blitzkrieg that followed took Prussia down in approximately the same time frame as Nazi Germany took down France in 1940. They did it without motor vehicles or tanks which considering the pace of warfare in those days is truly astonishing."

The German Army in WWII still ran on horses. The US Army, with the jeep and the truck, was the first real motorized army. The speed of a horse didn't change from 1806 to 1940. The author neglects to mention the defeat of the French in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. They haven't been successful at war since 1808.

What bugs me about the French, is their arrogant superiority and their willingness to shove it down our throats. Nothing America does is right, but somehow we still win. They hate that. Americans haven't attacked any French restaurants or boycotted French movies.

[Eternal_Bear]

"So we make fun of France for losing so ignominiously in World War II, forgetting that the French had literally lost an entire generation in the First World War II and had little left to give. Feeble as France had become, they none the less went to war against the fearsome Wehrmacht because their ally Poland was in danger. Surely there is some honor in that?"

If America had fought the Wehrmacht in 1940, it would have fared much worse than the French did since we had far fewer tanks and aircraft. Actually, The French inflicted as many casualties on the Germans as the Soviet Army did in the same comparable period (six weeks). However, the Russians had thousands of miles to retreat to. Remember also that the Brits in the French campaign folded first.

[Eternal_Bear]

The German Army in WWII still ran on horses. The US Army, with the jeep and the truck, was the first real motorized army. The speed of a horse didn't change from 1806 to 1940. The author neglects to mention the defeat of the French in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. They haven't been successful at war since 1808

Actually the French won the war against Austria in 1809. They also won in the the war against Austria in the 1850's in Northern Italy, Crimea, World War I and numerous colonial campaigns. I have no idea where you come up such assertions that they have not won since 1808.

[Kermit]

The holocaust had almost zero effect on the conduct and outcome of the war. If you are studying the war, the holocaust is a detail. For proof of this, why has their been no mention of the GuLag, which Stalin had operating at full force during the war? Why no mention of the Stalin's ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars and several other nations during the war? Why no mention of the 6 million Poles, Gypsies and other who also died in the death camps? They're not even a detail. Why no mention of the hundreds of thousands of Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians by Stalin during the war? This is just a partial listing of the atrocities, which could be listed.

[Kermit]

Oops, I was off a year. Have any of those victories made a hill of beans of a difference?

[dalebert]

United Arabian France. Not whatever it was.

[moyden]

Warning: Rhodesian freedom fighters are well-known Brit-haters (for good reason). But this is not an objective article.

[Edmund Burke]

"No one has taken the French seriously since Dien Bien Phu." Couldn't you also say that no one has taken the United States seriously since the fall of Saigon?

[Righty1]

I'll give you a history lesson frogophile. My father's ancestors kicked the frogs ass in the franco-Prussian war. My mother's ancestors using the plan of one of my father's kinsmen routed the frogs in WW 2. In their typical manner the frogs got even after WW 2 by getting the brave dumb Americans to agree to the forced ethnic cleansing of 12-15 million of my kinsmen from Prussia. It is estimated that more than 2 million civilians were killed in this little exercise of frog rache.

[Colombia59]

Chirac Wins!

France Declared Islamic Republic

Jews must leave country within one week

[Phillip Augustus]

That, I don't know. I would suspect so, assuming that they were not recent immigrants, but I am really not sure.