[jwalsh07]

The French should thank their lucky stars fro American cowboys and sing Happy Trails to You on a nightly basis.

Or in a nutshell, the French suck.

[wimpycat]

I've come to the conclusion that the Europeans can't be trusted to make any serious decisions. They started WWI, lost an entire generation of young men, then basically raped the Germans with the Treaty of Versailles, which set the stage for WWII. Another legacy from WWI was the arbitrary carving up of the Ottoman Empire, which largely contributed to the problems in the Middle East today, and also the arbitrary carving up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which largely contributed to the problems in the Balkans today. They were so friggin' eager to go to the first World War, then they were so friggin' scared of another one that they waited much longer than necessary to stop Hitler.

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, which wouldn't have happened without the US, they still seem to fall on exactly the wrong side of any decision. They whined and hemmed and hawed about Iraq back in 1990, they couldn't do a thing without us in Kosovo, they chastized Russia for their treatment of the Chechen rebels (ever notice how they romanticize the "underdog", even when they're corrupt, vicious bastards?), they wring their hands over civilian casualties, and now they're whining over Iraq? Who gives a sh** about Iraq? Why, the Europeans of course, because they're the "underdog", the little (figuratively speaking) country getting bullied by the big, bad Americans.

You just can't trust them to do anything right. They're concerned about friggin' global warming when they've got a huge problem with immigrants and terrorists breathing down their necks. Always misguided, always looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time.

They're like little children running with scissors. We have to protect them from themselves.

[freebilly]

Or in a nutshell, the French suck.

What do you expect from a culture that invented snail eating?