Jay Honeck wrote:
Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin, and another 30 years of World
War II studies under my belt. My father was a Captain in the US Army
Air Corps during the war, and was stationed in France and Germany in
1945. To assume I'm not intimately familiar with France's wartime
history and post-war behavior is presumptuous.

Sorry if stating facts hurts your pride, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
The fact remains that the French were humiliated in 1940, many French
acted dishonorably under the Nazi yoke, and they have yet to fully come
to terms with their fate as a former world power.

Don't despair, however. WRT France not gracefully accepting their
lessened global position, they aren't alone. Every dominant world power
eventually faces the same fate, and the U.S.'s turn is coming.

Maybe sooner than we think as we are now outsourcing our military to
France! :-)

Matt