[kearnyirish2]

France has lost a lot more lives in war than the US has since our undependence; one group was killed in Afghanistan defending an American base under attack. The US would never fight a war as the French did in WWI, losing 1.7 million men; that is more than we’ve lost in all of our wars combined.

[silverleaf]

and every day I walk over a bridge that has a plaque to Lafayette who encamped troops there when he was helping America win its independence

Who is today's Lafayette or George Washington? (or Churchill or Thatcher?)

Unfortunately neither of our countries is ruled by people of the caliber of the past, and it seems the character of the nation that made such sacrifices in the past is also slipping away or being diluted in a different, lesser genetic pool

And also each county must battle unfortunate stereotypes, which may have some basis in fact. America as cowboys, and France as effete cheese sniffers who don't play well with others