I had a plan to design a video game. It was going to be the Seals Take on France.
The problem was that I could get never get passed the intro before the French surrendered.
Ahh but that image of the French modern military has changed under Sarkozy.
"Longuet arrived Sunday and had been meeting with French troops in the east. Some 3,850 French troops are deployed in Afghanistan as part of the NATO mission.
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"French defense officials wouldn't comment on the attack except to say Longuet wasn't there at the time. "We don't comment on Taliban declarations," French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard said."
"Taliban infiltrator wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire Monday inside the Defense Ministry, killing at least two soldiers before he was gunned down in the third deadly breach of security in Afghanistan in less than a week."
"France assures its Afghan partners of its "determination to remain committed at their sides in the fight against the plague of terrorism," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in an online briefing Monday."
When in France I was constantly reminded of our global fight on terrorism by the French military dressed in camouflage that is very visible around all the monuments, mass transportation etc, always moving, always just eyes sweeping their look, encircles a group of middle eastern young men at a picnic table then move on and always "ready". Came back to the US an International Airport NY and saw one overweight cop with a gun hidden under his roll of stomach on his belt and a policewoman with him about 5' high. We made comment of such in comparison of visibility [that was 2 years ago].
LOL I like it.