How did we get from September 12th , 2001, when a leading French newspaper ran a giant headline with the words "We Are All Americans Now"
Because, on September 12th 2001, France saw a United States that was bloodied and hurting, and they could relate, having been subjected to large scale evil in their own homeland. They felt a kinship with that.
But after that, we got up, dusted our national self off and systematically began killing the people and regimes that were determined to harm us. When most of the world refused to help, we resolved to do it by ourselves if necessary.
Our reaction to attack subliminally made them hate their own history of sniveling cowardice, which they channeled into resentment and expressed as disdain.
We are foreign to them, and they to us.
Very well said and explains exactly the world's response and misunderstanding of us.
F the French.
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