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Syria: John Kerry slaps Britain in face as he calls France 'oldest allies'
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Posted on 08/30/2013 2:18:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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That's diplomacy for ya folks!
To: Sub-Driver
Eh? France wasn’t a US ally in our war of independence?
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:20:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Bush: Cowboy Diplomacy. Obama: Rodeo Clown Diplomacy.)
To: Sub-Driver
and punches above their weight ,D’oh
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:20:54 PM PDT
by
molson209
(Hillary Clinton)
To: Sub-Driver
How about when France refused us overflight rights when we attacked Khadaffi in Libya?
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
To: Sub-Driver
Well, he’s technically right.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:22:05 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: null and void
Well, yes, they were. The French have been allies with the US pretty much since day one.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:22:08 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: null and void
Well, yes. Lurch is actually right for once.
I believe there were a number of countries which recognized our independence before Great Britain did: Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Prussia and maybe even Morocco.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:22:22 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Sub-Driver
Not diplomatic, but at least for once he’s not wrong.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:22:30 PM PDT
by
Glenmore
To: Sub-Driver
Even Hillary! wouldn’t be this stupid.
What brainless fools we have for a government.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:23:12 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Sub-Driver
He is correct, though still a horse faced chucklehead. France has been an ally of the U.S. since the revolution. They are not are most ardent ally, but our oldest.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:23:22 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: All
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:23:52 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Sub-Driver
France was our ally when we were fighting for our Independence from, “wait for it”, Great Britain. So he’s right about that. They certainly haven’t been our best ally of late, that title has belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood ever since Obama sent back that bust of Churchill.
To: Sub-Driver
Let’s see how many Algerians the French put in harm’s way.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:25:04 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
(God is Love)
To: null and void
Technically, the broken clock is correct. Practically speaking, however, ....
So, JF'nK chalks up another FP win for BHO.
To: Sub-Driver
Paris France is where John Hanoi Kerry met with the North Vietnamese to get his marching orders in the 70’s.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:25:12 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
True. True. True.
Of course, the reason the French supported the US in it’s earliest stages was in the hopes of distracting the British from all of the fighting on the continent.
Enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:26:26 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: Sub-Driver
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky
link
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:29:05 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Term limits.)
To: Jim from C-Town
The thing about diplomacy is you try not to burn
your bridges before you cross them.
Kerry could have said a few simple words about British
support coming after the UN’s findings but no.
The damage this administration is doing will last decades.
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posted on
08/30/2013 2:29:50 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Sub-Driver
I heard a story that when DeGaulle called to tell President Johnson France was pulling out of NATO and he wanted all US soldiers off French soil, Johnson asked him, “does that apply to our war dead, too”?
To: Sub-Driver
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ih 1664 we were Englishmen...
From 1664 until 1775 we as Englishmen fought the French on US soil just about every year for those 100+ years...
My Irish born Englishman ancestor was killed by the French and Indians at Lake George in 1755..His FIL fought the French in 1711...
Except for 2 short periods 1775-1783 and 1812-1814...about 10 years ...when we fought major battles against the English crown...
we have been allies ...sometimes best chums and sometimes cautiously...but allies..
maybe Carry is referring to Jefferson and his French naturality and how close we must be to France because of that...
Mon Dieu
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