Paris 2028
Posted on 01/19/2004 1:51:04 AM PST by kattracks
I find the French attitudes offensive.
The article is merely seeking to inform us of their atrocious beliefs.
This jackass and two of his friends even followed my niece and her friend out of the store. They continued harassing them from behind for a block, laughing and heckling like the French cowards they were -- until a burly Englishman appeared from nowhere.
LOL.
My niece said this black "Adonis" . . . her word, not mine . . . filled out a Michael Jordan jersey like Arnold Schwarzenegger, had a deep voice like James Earl Jones, and was as fiery in his hatred of the French as I was. The trio of Frenchmen, as they're prone to do, slithered off without protest after being confronted.
My niece and her friend treated Adonis to lunch and she found a friendship that'll probably last a lifetime. Adonis and his wife are coming to Texas in June . . . to stay with our family for a month.
So, even in France, the Brits remain our loyal allies.
Understood, and apologies offered. Americans are not known for their talents as diplomats. But we're the best friends you could ever want. And these friends are telling it like they see it. Their grandparents and great grandparents (mine included) have fought in two wars recently to liberate your (sometimes) sorry carcasses. That gives us a lot of room to get offensive! And that's not fair, either. I would much rather have your support and friendship as a fellow freedom fighter than lose it because we are criticizing too harshly. But we must be critical. We really believe there were French fingers in those SAM boxes before they were discovered in Iraq. And we do believe your polls that expressed a strong tendency for French people to want America to lose. And when we read about German youth believing that Mossad pulled off 9/11, we're doubly affronted. What we would like is for people like you to get out into the streets and light some bonfires for liberty, figuratively speaking. Bring conscientious change to your political landscape! Beat down the doors of your "silent majorities." There have to be fellow compatriots who want France to be French (in a non-racist sense) and Islamists expelled from both French territory, as well as influence over French interests.
If ever our friendship is disolved it will not be due to Americans giving up on the French. And the anti-French rants you read around here are usually not racially motivated. We're talking about France's recent history. I don't have to mention Charles Martel, but I will. If anything, America needs to follow the French lead in this case.
Me neither!
If France was invaded I would be all for sending “inspectors” for 12 years or so, if the inspector’s safety could be assured.
:-)
The French love to object to everything American, be it fast food, EuroDisney or the trend toward English words being adopted into the French language. While they're busy objecting to these perceived threats to French culture, the blind fools simultaneously permit Muslims to flood across their borders.
If they don't want anything "American" to sully their culture, I doubt that a single American would care. It's their culture, they should certainly try to preserve it. However, this obsession with opposing the U.S. at every turn is evidence that the French have learned little from their own history. The policy of hating America and embracing Islam will turn out badly in the end. The Maginot line lives.
I live near France (in Germany) and travel there often. I do not see anything close to that harrassment though. People in Strasborg, Nancy, and Metz treat me just fine. It is only the anti-Christian zealots in France (for some reason there a lot of them) who hate Bush and, by large, America.
BUMP to that. Wow! Such a thoughtful post, short and well understandable. Hatred against the US is unjustified, at least for Europeans. Therefore, I can say that I hate those who spread unjustified hatred!
She was supposed to go over there the fall semester in 2003 and the fall semester in 2004. She's going to Spain instead. Since the family all had to kick in to pay for it, we nearly canceled it altogether. A semester in Europe is supposed to be fun for a 21 year-old young lady. I'm an "old school" uncle . . . and I refuse to send my niece somewhere where she'll be abused. However, she's convinced us Spain is okay. We'll see.
There's quite a few FReepers, good ones by the way, who are French. I wonder if the rest of the folks in France realize just what kind of chasm has opened up between us. I can't help it . . . my anger at the French probably won't ever go away. Luckily for them I'm old and fat. LOL.
If you'd like me to ask my niece about any particular areas, let me know. She was one of a large group so she should know if some areas are better than others. She just complained about Paris to me.
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