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Originally Posted by fartfly
yeah, maybe they give a fuck about their citizens a little bit and aren't "quick" to send their young men into shit holes to die because Bush said so and was the decider 
One thing I noticed about france. The people there are way more involved in politics then we are here. |
Well said.
American historians/propaganda writers like to portray the French as weak due to how they surrendered to a force which was much larger and more battle hardened than theirs and had quite recently destroyed other neighboring nations. As Kenny Rogers once said, "Know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. And know when to run." Knowing certain doom and not tossing your people into the fire does not make you a pussy.
Read up on the French Resistance if you want to learn about some courageous and vicious fucking fighters. They had to deal not only with Nazi Germany, but also the goddamned Vichy Regime, which collaborated with the Nazis. At that point, the French were best represented by the Resistance, not their new government.
We Americans have been extraordinarily lucky - we've never had to deal with a true military invasion. But we do like to call people names whom have had to suffer through one or two.
Canada has an army? Who knew?
