[melvin]

The problem with the French and some other countries, they are too worried what the world thinks of them.
As you are very well aware of, there are some countries that are in this world today, that just plain don't like anyone no matter what another country does.
There is one thing that does really jump out at me though. The French have seemed to have forgotten what it is like to be French. They French have accommodated the many immigrants that have entered France and they have lost their identity. The French don’t know how to be French any more.

[Cronos]

The French were always losers, losing to the English ever since hte battle fo Agincourt and making a fuss about it ever since. Now they want to overthrow the US., ha ha ha

[Kenny Bunk]

Mel, the great cities of Provence, Marseilles and Toulon, might as well be in Iraq. You can go for blocks without hearing a word of French, or seeing many people in western clothing.

What's worse, around Paris and other cities, there are many whole quartiers where YOU or I cannot go. Hell, the cops won't even go in without taking precautions. The Muslim immigrant thing is totally out of Frog contol.

Example: old pal of mine, retired guy in Toulon, former civil servant, lives in semi-public housing. Pension: 800Euro/month. His neighbor, some non-working Moroccan geek, has three wives and 18 children. He gets TWO Apartments, free, and with the Froggie version of AFDC, collects 4,000Euro/month + benefits (or rather the women do, he just controls it.)

It's French for "There goes the neighborhood." We shouldn't be too quick to point fingers. Our own bureaucraps have done the same thing to Maine, dumping many hundreds of Somali families on us, with similar results. This being a much larger country than France, the national pain is more diffuse. Let me tell you though, on a local level, it smarts good. Neither we, nor our sometime pals, the Frogs are doing a good job with this one. Maybe we can learn from each other?