Posted on 02/10/2003 8:10:57 AM PST by canuck_conservative
France is like the beautiful High School cheerleader who often treated her fellow classmates to her derision because they weren't as pretty or popular as she and then grew up to be fat and lazy and shows up trying to run the class reunion. Everyone else grew up and she's still living in a High School fantasy.
To both I would say, "Grow up, accept reality, the world doesn't revolve around you no matter how much you think it should."
When they decide to act like honorable humanbeings they can ask to rejoin the rest of the world, until then, shun them.
Well, the Holy Roman Empire arose when Charlemagne conquered Germany. It was destroyed a thousand years later when Napoleon conquered Germany.
One way or another, France and Germany always seem to wind up bound at the hip, despite all their differences and centuries of animosity.
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