Posted on 12/07/2017 4:05:16 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Gerard Araud tweeted Thursday afternoon that “In this Pearl Harbor day, we should remember that the US refused to side with France and the UK to confront the fascist powers in the 30s.”
Mr. Araud deleted the tweet within a few minutes, though not before it had been screen-captured.
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My uncle died in France July 4, 1944. 19 years old.
In all fairness, the Canadians already had WW1 in the bag, but it’s still nice to have friends jump in.
It did take the west coming to pull them out, and now that they’ve pretty much surrender to Islam, one has to wonder how long before they’re crying again.
Surrendering is cheese intensive.
Will do.
Well FDR was a socialist, so one can see why he’d like anything with socialism in it.
“We had a lot of isolationists.”
We had a lot of sensible people.
Until later in the war, the spitfire was about the only plane to do well against the 109.
Oh Horse pucky. Britain and France were more than powerfil enough to take down Hitler when he marched into the Rhineland. He correctly predicted that they were cowards who would do nothing.
Now that, is funny.
“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” -— General George S. Patton
As I recall FDR and the dems were in charge
I’ve read Patton’s bio. Great stuff.
The United States had better watch the current Muslim problem in France closely. If they do start a takeover we had better spend the money necessary to repatriate our war dead from all the cemeteries in France or else the first thing the Muzzies will do is desecrate them.
Last Pearl Harbour day one British rag ran a story about "racist" America and how the British were the only ones who treated our black G.I.s as human beings.
Myself a kid of 13 years old at the very end of the war. I remember the aid packages delivered to us with the two hands clasped. The flags of each country on each cuff. We would have been flattened or forced to concede defeat but for America.
Today most of my countrymen know nothing about the war on the home front. American dislikes and petty nonsense suits some of the gutter press fine. They never saw a damn thing. They never suffered. They never served.
Never mind em'
It is an interesting thing to see/read how they punished the Germans so viciously after WWI and many could see WWII coming. Geopolitical, military tactics, technology (bi planes and zeplins to nuclear warheads) political reactions, nationalism, economics, population die off, genetics, PTSD, isolationist, imperialism, communist revolution, pandemic ... everything we can imagine rolled up in 30 (1914-1945) years of history. I’m guessing that in the years between it im guessing 150-200+ million deaths. Even the US politicians saw the evil of it all. Kind of cool except for deaths.
If anyone of us were there it would have seemed like the end of the world biblicaly. True SHTF.
WWI deaths 20 million
WWII Deaths 80 million
Russian Communist revolution 10 million
China internal revolution 20 million
1918 flu ( some double counting) 20-50 million
Skirmishes in between 1 million
More I missed - double counted about even
Anyway it might be the most violent timeframe until the next great killing cycle.
It sure thinned the herd. I am reminded of the economic and social benefits that arose from the Black Death. Those who remained enjoyed higher wages and increased freedom.
My friend that was then, this is now and our countries are not the same and neither are our people. Perhaps if we had not overindulged in multiculturalism we could find the common thread which would still unite us. I truly think that it is too late for that.
I appreciate your post, thank you.
The same thing happened on a smaller scale to Canada.
Rather than emulate America’s melting pot, Canadians opted for the salad bowl, with different ethnicities retaining their native cultures in enclaves.
It worked. Now Canadians complain their spirit of nationalism is seriously curtailed and society is fragmented.
We’re next. Unless we can have a big old war that lasts long enough to forge patriotism anew....
LOL, our melting pot is rather rancid these days. It began when someone on the left decided that we were a stew pot with each vegetable retaining its own distinct flavor.
Nature never changes and nature dictates that like seeks like. Our experimental melting pot has failed because the host culture did not hold strong and insist that immigrants join us rather than give up who we are to accommodate them.
We are a fractured nation and I don’t think that even a war will bring us back to where we were.
I wish us both good luck, we are going to need it, eh? :)
On top of that break everything across the world. Steel mills in Asia got rebuilt and modernized in the 50s but we left our 1920s tech up and running. In a way we should have taken over the world. OH well. Maybe we will one day.
On third thought, we saved France twice in the last 100 years.
Third time, we get to keep it.
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