The French stopped the Muslims at Tours; they don’t take sh!t from Muslims. They won’t allow them to wear headscarves in public schools, while we try to accomodate them for drivers license pictures with their ninja-masks.
More French died in WWI than Americans in all of our wars combined (it will take centuries for us to catch up); Americans can mock them from behind the safety of their keyboards, but 2 years 10 French troops died defending an area they took over from Americans in Afghanistan (therefore sparing 10 American families that grief), and France lost 58 paratroopers in 1983 in the series of attacks that killed 242 US Marines. Granted, they are hardly the first to fight, but when they do they send good soldiers.
Excellent post.
And to the anti-France jokers: it makes no sense to mock an ally when we may well be in a war for civilization itself.
Vive la France in 732 (the battle of Tours), and vive la France today.
220 Marines, 18 sailors, 3 soldiers - BLT barracks
1 Marine, 3 soldiers - Embassy