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To: midway1

If you read the history of France you will discover a long history of military excellence along with a few major defeats. Sadly the French officer core in WW1 was terrible. Simply horrible and needlessly killed millions and millions of Frances best and brightest. So horrific were Frances losses in WW1 that the French has no will to fight 20 years later when WW2 came around. However the French appear to reverting back to their fighting past. And also appear (unlike the USA under Bush/Obama) to have a pretty good idea of who the enemy really is. We should be happy to have them in the fight.


8 posted on 01/14/2013 7:09:27 AM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb
If you read the history of France you will discover a long history of military excellence...

Yes. The French collapse in 1940 was due the German army's brilliant tank strategy, not French cowardice. One little-known story of that campaign is how well the remnants of the French army fought to cover the British evacuation at Dunkirk.

15 posted on 01/14/2013 7:57:20 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: jpsb

I do not disagree with anything you’ve said.
But it looks like France is losing this war against the mooselimb crazies.
How many buildings and vehicles have been torched in France each year and folks killed there.
And that is due to their liberal immigrations laws of yeas past.


30 posted on 01/14/2013 11:25:30 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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