[Petronski]

I'm not painting with a broad brush, I'm talking about wholesale defeatism as seen at the top of the French government during the Battle of France. No offense intended.

[French-American Republican]

No offense taken. Upon reflection, your remark was a fair jab at France's cowardice during World War II. It was not an ethnic slur as some of what I've read on this board in the past, and I therefore retract my complaint.