[LibertarianInExile]

Yeah, I picked up a wee bit o' anti-Papism there myself. And I hate to agree with Byron, as the French have asked for a grade-A royal ass-kicking since DeGaulle dropped out of NATO, but the anti-French stuff is kinda stretching now.

Again, it's not that I would defend the French. God knows, those insufferably arrogant bastards running their country would laugh as Washington or New York burned. But when you start discussing back when the French actually WERE a world power, you're REALLY reaching.

[happygrl]

But when you start discussing back when the French actually WERE a world power, you're REALLY reaching.

The author is not reaching, he is trying to explain the genesis of French foreign policy and why France behaves as it does.

These attitudes have origins, just as America's approch to the world has origins in our past history, beginning with our anchestors' desire to leave Europe and its problems behind.