The French (at last some French) are the Courageous Ones Now

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[JOHN ADAMS]

I yield to almost no-one in my contempt for the French, who typically despite Americans and Jews, and I have happily repeated the oft-told classified ad for a French rifle -- never fired, dropped once.

But it's got to be said: while the New York Times and goodness knows how many other American sources are hiding under their beds; while the FBI could do nothing for the originator of Everybody Draw Muhammad Day other than give her a new identity and help HER hide under a new bed, the French, at least some French, are calling out the lunatics who currently endanger Western Civilization. I forget which American showed up at a rally in Paris and said "Lafayette we are here," but the fact has to be faced that it's the French who are actually showing up for this war before everybody else except the Israelis, who have no choice unless they all want to move to Cleveland.

A year or two ago a different band if Islamic lunatics killed an Italian hostage who said, right before he died, "this is how an Italian dies." http://nypost.com/2004/04/16/hero-hostages-last-moments-ill-show-you-how-an-italian-dies-he-tells-thugs/ He meant standing up and without cringing in fear and without pretending he was being killed because he was guilty of something.

It's a bit odd that, 70 years after our Greatest Generation did it's thing, the nations that are formally, publicly, standing up to the current fascism are France and Italy.

[kearnyirish2]

They assumed the liberation was the payoff for the independence they helped us win.

[Peter Libra]

I had viewed your posts rather late and thank you for your much more comprehensive knowledge on the subject of French valour in Mexico.

I am that old and I remember the BBC bulletins in England the year 1954. The two months death struggle for the Vietnamese City of Dien Bien Phu.(French Indo China). A bitterly fought battle with the Viet Mihn. The French inflicting four times their own casualties. It is debatable. but it has been said that if America had thrown in their forces, the French could have won. Thus no debacle as we all know, regarding that country.

[ek_hornbeck]

Not to mention the fact that the French seem light years ahead of the rest of Europe (or even the US) in recognizing the threat posed by Third World immigration and trying to do something about it at the grassroots. Compare how much publicity and how many votes LePen gets in France with the invisibility of Tom Tancredo.

[dsutah]

I remember reading one time, that Rochambeau (sp?) did quite a lot of reform of the French military when he was put in charge, and he had a fighting force that was almost if not better than what Great Britain had! This was before he took his forces over to America.