tell the frogs we just as much their ally as they are ours... watch the smoke come out of their head holes
Posted on 09/13/2018 12:03:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
France is famously America’s oldest ally, but more than half of French people no longer consider the United States a reliable partner, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Just 44 percent said the US was a “trusted ally” under President Donald Trump — a 33-point plunge since the same survey was done in May 2014, when Barack Obama was in the White House.
Only 17 percent said they had a positive opinion of Trump in the IFOP poll, commissioned by the American Jewish Committee advocacy group, France’s Foundation for Political Innovation and the Sursaut think-tank collective.
Some 54 percent said they had a “very bad opinion” of the Republican leader.
Supporters of the far-right National Rally party led by Marine Le Pen — formerly the National Front — were the only group to express a more positive opinion, with 42 percent backing Trump. …
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In fact, I have visited American military cemeteries in Europe and have seen the children (and adults) there paying respects. The people of Normandy seem especially appreciative and respectful toward American visitors - perhaps they are better attuned to what occurred there, than are the people of Paris or Brussels. The cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is perhaps the most breathtaking piece of land along the English Channel, though I hesitate to think of it as "given" to us. The price paid was very high indeed.
Please do not think me dismissive of our fallen soldiers' resting places. I truly do wish that they could lie undisturbed in perpetuity, but the people who are destined to inherit those pieces of land called France and Belgium are not likely to care one whit about land use agreements made by a bunch of long-dead Christians.
IIRC, British military cemeteries in France have already been vandalized. I suspect it will gradually become a regular event, much like the car-burning street festivals. Unless something changes drastically, I think we can expect our memorials and grave markers to be treated similarly. And, as you noted, the responsibility is all ours. So how do we deal with maintaining such sites in lands that are increasingly hostile toward us? We've seen repeatedly that the local gendarmes will be restrained in dealing with these "protected" people - just look at the mess that is tolerated in Calais.
tell the frogs we just as much their ally as they are ours... watch the smoke come out of their head holes
Most French are Muslim pro Taliban.
well, alrighty them. Au revoir homies.
If it’s of any consolation, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen may actually have France become an actual trusted ally again if she becomes head of France. She does come closer to conservative in France than most, American conservative at that.
Eh, I would have said more that it was Lenin and Trotsky’s dream. Don’t forget that the EU was the brainchild of Lenin and Trotsky if this is to be believed:
THE [European ]UNION CAN MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION to the reform of the international economic architecture and to the establishment of a mechanism for collective governance.
From: Commission of the European Communities
Brussels 9.2.2000 [COM (2000) 154 final]
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions:
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2000-2005
“SHAPING THE NEW EUROPE”
Writing in The Spectator (London) of 5th February 2000 John Laughland stated that “The West is now on the verge of achieving that of which Lenin and Trotsky dreamed in 1917. For the point is not to replace nation states with a European or world superstate. It is instead to achieve the old Marxist dream of abolishing statehood altogether”
Say, wasn’t the AJC the same group that “vetted” the Frankfurt School and then published their crappy “F-scale” and Adorno’s crap about “fascism” (which in reality was Conservativism that was falsely called “fascism” due to Adorno being a massive Marxist)?
The thesis of the state socialist is that no line may be drawn between private and public affairs which the state may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory.Not to mention, the USSR itself was part of Germany’s plot to get Russia out of the war in 1917. One may think of people such as Lenin and Trotsky as German-minded in that case.
— “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887
To be fair, it’s not particularly clear if Kaiser Wilhelm II was involved in Lenin and Trotsky being shipped to Russia. For all we know, central command acted alone. But yeah, they certainly were German-minded in the sense that they followed Karl Marx.
Either way, we definitely need to shut down the EU, period.
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