Because everybody knows it's easy.
French combat boot
Posted on 11/07/2005 10:49:11 AM PST by mojito
Because everybody knows it's easy.
Of course you are correct. I'm just sooo tired of pointing out that fact to revisionist Francophiles. Also, I've always wondered what vast acumen of military knowlege a 19 yr. old French aristocrat was able to impart to the Continental Army.
....and what of the U.S. town whose leadership, in the name of tolerance, forces its Christian citizens to listen to the Muslim "call to worship" broadcast loudly on loudspeakers five times a day? - - It is time to test the tolerance waters by broadcasting "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" loudly from the loudspeakers at the First Baptist Church right downtown five times a day.
I find the philosophy and aims of islamists to be reprehensible, but at least they're willing to fight and die for their beliefs. The French won't even defend their own country. We've bailed their unworthy butts out of trouble too many times in the past only to have them sneer at us afterward. This time let them perish.
LOL. Freepers say the funniest things!
I like to think that Buffalo is a socialist utopia.
Therein lies the problem: one cannot reassert what one has forgotten.
Can our own, young Americans that hardly know their own history, geography and economics --- can they fight for American values? What are American values to them? They may not believe all they hear from the Leftists, but they don't know what to believe either.
And we have paid them back at least TWICE OVER!
Wow. That about covers it, doesn't it?
That map looks like an organized plan has been followed. That is NOT spontaneous. It looks like France's sleeper cells were activated; the 'GO' signal being the death of an immigrant...
I wonder what the 'GO' signal is for us?
Reagan80
Well . . . depends on what side of the Channel you were sitting on. Edward III (of England) was indeed the grandson of Philip IV of France (Ed was Phil's daughter's son), but Edward would never have been considered King-of-France material if the Capetians had been able to produce a male heir. Considering the ongoing state of tension between England and France at the time, it was unlikely that the French were going to accept an Englishman as king of France. I don't know how seriously Edward took his theoretical claim to the throne of France, but it was a good enough excuse to get a war started.
And I'm sorry, but Joan is just way cool.
That's right....if. But the Capetians didn't have a male heir and the law on both sides of the Channel as you put it was that Edward had the right to be king. Of course then it was inevitable that he would claim his rightful throne; even the previous King of France had named him as his heir.
The French flouted the law which is why I say their current love of lawlessness and just doing what feels good might be traced back to this time.
Joan of Arc? Think she's a bit flaky myself. But a lot of people thought she was "way cool" back then too which politically is why the French used her rather than abide by law.
Since that time, the English have been known to be more enamored by the rule of law than the French. The frenchies still have trouble enforcing the law today as we all know.
Multiculturalism is fast approaching teason.
The Brits and the US will not tolerate a surrender.
Suha Arafat lives in Paris, yet she isn't demanding that the riots stop.
Hmmm...
Dien Bien Phu Deux
Sadly that is my take too, France is toast, the Franks are history. I will be curious to see that the Brits, USA and Russians do. An Islamic state is the middle of Europe will certainly set off all the alarm bells.
Yo are correct France never recovered from WW1, the French generals of WW1 were complete fools.
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