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That's diplomacy for ya folks!
1 posted on 08/30/2013 2:18:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Eh? France wasn’t a US ally in our war of independence?


2 posted on 08/30/2013 2:20:06 PM PDT by null and void (Bush: Cowboy Diplomacy. Obama: Rodeo Clown Diplomacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

and punches above their weight ,D’oh


3 posted on 08/30/2013 2:20:54 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Sub-Driver
How about when France refused us overflight rights when we attacked Khadaffi in Libya?
4 posted on 08/30/2013 2:21:12 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, he’s technically right.


5 posted on 08/30/2013 2:22:05 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Sub-Driver

Not diplomatic, but at least for once he’s not wrong.


8 posted on 08/30/2013 2:22:30 PM PDT by Glenmore
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To: Sub-Driver

Even Hillary! wouldn’t be this stupid.
What brainless fools we have for a government.


9 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.)
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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.


10 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!)
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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.


12 posted on 08/30/2013 2:24:17 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s see how many Algerians the French put in harm’s way.


13 posted on 08/30/2013 2:25:04 PM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Sub-Driver
Paris France is where John Hanoi Kerry met with the North Vietnamese to get his marching orders in the 70’s.
15 posted on 08/30/2013 2:25:12 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France
by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky

link

17 posted on 08/30/2013 2:29:05 PM PDT by Flag_This (Term limits.)
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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”?


19 posted on 08/30/2013 2:30:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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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


20 posted on 08/30/2013 2:37:49 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Sub-Driver

needless (and pointless) insults of our allies...(as well as leaking their defense secrets to the mass media in order to weaken or undercut them...)

they must be teaching something new in Diplomacy class these days?


21 posted on 08/30/2013 2:44:40 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: Sub-Driver

he is correct in calling them our oldest

they are also our first national enemy, too


26 posted on 08/30/2013 2:59:35 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
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Lurch conveniently forgets that Degaule (sp) wouldn’t allow NATO to have it’s hdqs in France
27 posted on 08/30/2013 3:11:55 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 83)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, it’s the first true thing I’ve heard him say in a while. And besides, this bunch slaps UK every chance they get.


29 posted on 08/30/2013 3:14:00 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: Sub-Driver

France was the Confederacy’s best ally providing the south with arms during the war for states rights.


33 posted on 08/30/2013 3:35:02 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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