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Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless

Oh come now sir, I'm surprised at you! Let me provide you with a little contrast:

It's well documented that the French had the largest land army in Europe at the start of WWII and its equally well documented that the Poles didn't. Yet the Poland took longer for the Germans to conquer even with more troops to do it with. After the occupation Polish resistance to the German military took the form of the Polish Home Army and huge numbers of soldiers and airmen escaping to th Russians and British. The French "resistance" took the shape of a pathetically small number of fanatics terrorizing Vichy collaborators' women and children.

You bring up Vietnam...isn't the finest exploit of "French" military bravery exhibited by the French Foreign Legion? And even when that wasn't enough...did w not have to come and bail them out again?

Comparing the numbers of dead for us and them is infuriating and wrong. It proves nothing.

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A comment regarding French History the French Army at the start of World Wa II had more tanksthan the German army and more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe.