[katana]

If you happen to read a biography of Patton, you'll find he was a great fan of the French military and had little but contempt for the British. His experiences during WWI were no doubt a factor in this. The French had their share of over-the-top bloodbath charges, but they did stop the Germans in the Valley of the Marne and fought very valliantly. Of course, Patton also believed he had been one of Napoleon's Field Marshalls in a previous life, so that may have had something to do with his attitude as well.

The point is, France is a very different country than it once was and this growing problem with the Muslim population will get a lot worse before it can get better. Frankly, I'm not a fan of Le Pen or his jackboot cadres, but it is difficult to see a genuine solution but expulsion of the "Moors" a'la Ferdinand and Isabela in 1492.

Anybody from anyplace can "become" an American. But to be French (or any other European nationality) involves race and ancestry. The Germans realize this, but the French actually go the extent of pretending that anyone born in their country is descended from the ancient Gauls. In many ways, this sort of socialist thinking involves so much self delusion that it could be classified as a form of mental illness.

[yankeedame]

Anybody from anyplace can "become" an American. But to be French (or any other European nationality) involves race and ancestry. The Germans realize this, but the French actually go the extent of pretending that anyone born in their country is descended from the ancient Gauls.

Ah, yes, but the French are composed of both the Gauls and the Franks.

"..the French are divided into Franks and Gauls. Franks, serious and rather cold, the builders and the Gauls, adorably frivilous, the destroyers of this nation." --Nancy Mitford," The Sun King"