Lafayette was indeed a great Frenchman, and no doubt that without that French blockade at Yorktown, we might still be British. But I think Americans remembered even after 200 years- Lafeyette we have returned- and the French don't even care within a generation. I think it is time that Americans realize that the French are NOT our allies, and we should start acting so.
"Lafayette was indeed a great Frenchman, and no doubt that without that French blockade at Yorktown, we might still be British. But I think Americans remembered even after 200 years- Lafeyette we have returned- and the French don't even care within a generation. I think it is time that Americans realize that the French are NOT our allies, and we should start acting so."
I'm sorry, but I think its important that we recognize our own selfish reasons that underlay our foreign policy and stop trying to rationalize everything we've done as if it was all under the banner of some sort of altruistic saintly and pure wonderfulness of the American people. This doesn't absolve the French, Germans, or anyone else from failing to be grateful and respectful of the sacrifices we've made on their behalf. The problem is that we've allowed these countries to skate on their own responsibilities for so long that they've lost any respect they may have had for the US position. This is a problem WE'VE created by not demanding and requiring reciprocity on the part of our erstwhile allies. It seems that no matter what these cowardly countries do or don't do the American establishment continues to bankroll and prop up these countries economically and militarily. Why on earth do we still have troops in Germany and Japan sixty years after the war, fer Crissakes? And in Korea almost fifty years after that war "ended". This kind of lunacy on OUR part is why this sort of anti-Americanism thrives and flourishes.