[KentuckyWoman]

Oh sure, France aided us during the revolutionary war, due to no self-interests of their own!

The point that you seem to obviously have missed is that France stuck it's neck in the noose with ours with only a hope of future trade as any possible reward. They weren't hoping for hand-outs down the road and their goose would have been cooked right along with ours had we lost. Capish?

[A Citizen Reporter]

"The point that you seem to obviously have missed is that France stuck it's neck in the noose with ours with only a hope of future trade as any possible reward. "

And it had nothing to do with France's enemy named England, who they'd been fighting for centuries?

[Isle of sanity in CA]

The point that you seem to obviously have missed is that France stuck it's neck in the noose with ours with only a hope of future trade as any possible reward.

Actually France supporting us was more analogous to us supporting the Mujahadeen. Their enemy was our enemy.