Posted on 01/27/2020 9:33:50 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Where did you learn history, “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’’?
LOL, true
France was a critical ally to Washington, and without her, North American might look like a Hollywood dystopia.
Islam is a war plan. Perhaps France is no longer choosing to ignore that fact.
“France will always be there when she needs us.”
They were there when we needed them in the American Revolution - and the War of 1812. When we wanted to contain communism we encouraged them to fight the First Indochina War - which had no public support in France, and for which they had no money to fight. We gave them the weapons (including an aircraft carrier) and money, and when they looked to us for help in Dien Bien Phu we simply left them to lose.
“France should draft their migrant men and send them back to contain the radicals.”
One of the reasons they lost Indochina is that they employed that strategy; they had to rely on colonial troops and the Foreign Legion because they weren’t allowed to use regular soldiers from “Metropolitan France” (mainland France).
It just gets funnier and funnier.
Have they learned to march forward yet?
Yes, they’ve done good work in West Africa and the Horn of Africa.
That said, their political leadership at home is suspect for sure.
Where are Frances’s troops
By all means France, send your army.
Time to pull them all back from every region. Tired of spending blood and money on people who don’t understand the concept of liberty. Don’t need their oil, or anything else. We will be just fine.
And they should do it again!
The French “lost” in Algeria in the same way we lost in Vietnam, the Portuguese lost in Angola/Mozambique, and the Rhodesians lost the Bush War: They decided it wasn’t worthwhile anymore, without ever losing any battle of consequence. In Algeria, French troops faced some of the Algerians who fought on their side in Indochina.
They can’t; they wouldn’t have the same pool of colonial troops with which they fought the Indochina War (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia, and Senegal are all independent now).
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