[concrete is my business]

Why is the word "perfidy" used so often in editorials about the French?

Is it like "quagmire" and Iraq?

I think journalists should always try to use words that everyone understands.

[MadIvan]

BAE, Britain's largest weapons manufacturer, is not selling to China, ban or no ban. They said they'd rather sell to the USA.

Regards, Ivan

[thoughtomator]

Perfidy is the French national flavor of betrayal and corruption.

[BushisTheMan]

The guy in the office across the hall from me just received a special invitation to attend a "Buy French Products" party at the French Consulate. I told him that I stopped buying anything French at the beginning of the Iraq war. And also told him to tell the French Ambassador that "I still hate the French still today."

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A French married lady cannot enter even a menagerie without bringing the purity of that menagerie under suspicion.
- Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Notebook #19, July 1880-January 1882

An isolated & helpless young girl is perfectly safe from insult by a Frenchman, if he is dead.
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883

A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883

[logic]

As Rumsfeld said, "Going to war without the French is kinda like going hunting without your accordian..."

If France does sell arms to China, we should retaliate by selling Taiwan anything they want...

Taiwan is one of the few allies we should cherish...(along with England)

[Grzegorz 246]

Of course EU shouldn't lift the embargo, but on the other hand US government should at least try to do something with putin's Russia - they sell everything to China, including subs and Su-30's - Russia equivalent of F-15.