Posted on 01/04/2005 10:10:10 AM PST by Baton rouge
Our two countries are united by a friendship that goes back more than 200 years which makes France the oldest ally of the United States.
Based on solidarity that has never failed, from the battlefields of Yorktown to the beaches of Normandy and through all the crises of the past half century, the friendship between our two countries is especially strong because it is rooted in shared values. The American dream of the Founding Fathers melds readily with the ideals of the French Revolution. It is no accident that an American woman and a Frenchman, Eleanor Roosevelt and René Cassin, together wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more than 50 years ago.
This community of values is today our most precious asset enabling our two countries together to address the important common challenges facing them, foremost among them terrorism. After the horrific attacks that so wounded America, the very deep solidarity between France and the United States illustrates once again the lesson of our common history--that whenever the essential is at issue, whenever the values underlying our civilization are threatened, our two countries are naturally at the other's side in the same cause. As President Chirac said when he came to the United States a few days after the September 11 attacks, "France will be in the front line in the combat against international terrorist networks, shoulder to shoulder with America and its ally for ever."
The following pages give some idea, albeit a necessarily incomplete one, of the wealth of ties between France and the United States."
(And i want to know : They have 6 weeks of paid leaves ? is it true ??)
Pi$$ on France.
I loath the useless frogs.
Then start acting like one.
Looks like propaganda to me.
France will always be around when they need us.
Stick It.
good one.
This is just one of the patently false statements in this nonsensical piece.
I ahve a lot of good ones about the useless, cheese sucking, surrender monkeys.
f it
Thanks. I barfed chow reading that.
YEECH!
The French as ALLIES? Yeah right.
"I'd rather have two German Divisions in FRONT of me vice THREE French Division BEHIND me!"
Gen Patton.
"I would rather have a German division in front of me then a French Division bahind me." - Gen. George S. Patton
LOL.
Lastly, if being an ally makes France immune to criticism from us, why doesn't that work for both countries. The French are as anti-American as they can be without crippling their tourism industry. Aren't we "allies"?
"The American dream of the Founding Fathers melds readily with the ideals of the French Revolution."
One little difference...Washington refused to be made a king while Napoleon crowned himself emperor!!
It is good to hate the French.
Have you seen those ads the History Channel has been running promoting their upcoming show about the French Revolution? They end with the narrator saying "...for two hours it won't kill you to love the French."
Yes it will, the frog deserve my hate.
Let's set it straight. France was never an ally of the US. They helped us in our Revolution against the British when they thought we could distract their enemy from them (they had refused to help earlier, although Lafayette came to help as a private citizen). By the dawn of the 19th century we were effectively at war with them (read about the XYZ Affair).
During the 19th century Napoleon III tried to conquer Mexico to use against the US. The French, along with the British, favored the Confederates against the Union during our Civil War, hoping to break us up into multiple smaller, more easily influenced countries.
They grudgingly accepted our assistance in WWI, and pretended to be useful during WWII when we liberated their country from the Nazis, although their help in that liberation was mostly complaining that we weren't doing it the way they would have (if they could have).
They were publicly a thorn in our side from the end of WWII on, and privately were actively working against US interests pretty consistently. Since about 1970-75, they have been active adversaries in almost every venue. We just took a while to realize it.
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