Time to stop bashing French

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | July 11, 2003 | Froma Harrop

[AnAmericanMother]

A savage cartoon from the great English caricaturist, Gillray:

[jetson]

BASH HARDER! TEACH THE UNAPPRECIATIVE PERVERTS A LESSON.

[ArrogantBustard]

The spectacle of Bush alternating between tax cuts for the rich and displays of religious piety, however, sends my friend over the deep end.

At this point, nausea set in....

[AnAmericanMother]

It's a good book too.

Forester tells a good tale. I wish he hadn't made his best known hero, Capt. Hornblower, an angst-filled 20th century man in the early 19th century. But you can ignore his maunderings and just enjoy the adventure.

[bmwcyle]

Peace in our time, bomb Paris first is what I have been saying for years.

[FeliciaCat]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Bikers4Bush]

I'm with you. The French suck.

[Puppage]

You left out how the french (LOVE, how ya NEVER capitalizsed) proactively tried to get the African nations to vote against us by sending a french emissary there.Or, did I miss it? Any way. Nice letter...bet ya don't hear a peep outta her.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Time to stop bashing French

Why? Did they surrender again???

[Flightdeck]

Nice post. I'll add a personal anecdote as to why I'm not inclined to forive and forget just yet. My wife was in Paris, and two Frenchmen tried to rape her and her sister. Nuff said

[eyespysomething]

A quick google reveals, not surprisingly, a dim-witted lefty soccer mom

HA HA

The Soccer-Mom's-aren't-lefties Avenger strikes again!! Fighting for truth about soccer moms the whole world over!

(please see my profile page).

[borkrules]

The 14th commemorates the destruction in 1789 of the Bastille, the political prison in Paris that symbolized despotism. Its liberation set off a revolution that was far bloodier than ours, but equally world-changing.

Yeah, "world-changing". Many very good commentators on this period believe that the difference between the political qualities of the American and French revolution provide a very nice starting point for understanding the world-wide split between those who believe in freedom and individual liberty and those who champion coerced equality and "fraternite".

The French Revolution of 1789 was an unmitigated disaster, not only for the French (who probably deserved it), but for the world, loosing as it did the pernicious concept of coerced equality and a hatred of tradition and religion that could only have led to the guilliotine. Read Burke on this.

[Cyber Liberty]

I have only just begun bashing the French....

[isthisnickcool]

The U.S. flag flies at half staff at the U.S. cemetery at Omaha Beach, France. Of the 407,000 American soldiers killed in WW II. Some 74,000 American casualties are buried in France. Including 30,000 from WW I.

Some might say to hell with the French of today. Which might be a good point. But, the French were not always worthless.

[NativeNewYorker]

Lacrosse moms? :)

[alloysteel]

This is like calling for an end to anti-Semitism or racial discrimination. People will pay lip service to the principle, but inside, at a visceral level, their attitudes are largely untouched. We may be coldly polite to the French, and expect only vituperation in response. We still do not have to love them, or extend any kind of assistance, so long as they do not, or will not, recognize their own complicity in the failed human connection.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Time to stop bashing French"

Nope! Sorry! I bashed the French before this last dust-up (I will never forgive them for denying us flyover rights to bomb Momar!) And I will continue to do so!

[11th Earl of Mar]

Francophobia flares now and then, especially when France tries to frustrate the United States on the world stage

Francophobia?????

"Phobia" means "Fear."

Who in their right mind is fearful of the french?

I am sooooo tired of the "phobia" label being thrown around.

[alloysteel]

I'm not sure about the Greek construction, but "misoFrancism" may be a more practical term.

[schaketo]

france had an unemployment rate of 9.3% last month (April 03). It’s rising. Can we help them push it over 10%? 20%?. The new reality show on FOX this fall could be the marxists, socialists, and fundamentalist muslim imports (they are about 10% of the population and growing) burning paris to the ground. You can help:

WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET!

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