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Don’t Mess With the French Military
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| Robert Beckhusen
Posted on 11/17/2015 5:47:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
The French have a long way to go to prove that they can fight and fight well.
The only modern military legacy they have is Napoleon and Marshall Petain at Verdun in WWI.
We must give the frogs credit though, they are showing more balls and leadership than the Eunuch in the White House over the last 7 years...
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:50:06 AM PST
by
Netz
To: RoosterRedux
Obama is gonna unfriend them on Facebook.
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:50:06 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: RoosterRedux
Leave it to the French to bomb 20 targets already deserted because of Russian attacks
Oh wait, the Pentagon and john Francoise Kerry told us the Russians aren't attacking ISIS .....
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:51:01 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: RoosterRedux
The same French military that pulled out after the Beirut bombings?
Look, there are elements of the French defense that are very good. The Foreign Legion, their intelligence. But France's "military" has not instilled much confidence recently. In the Gulf War they were given a ceremonial flanking role. They didn't participate in Iraq. And honestly, I don't know what they've done of note in Afghanistan, if anything. A few air strikes do not constitute military superiority over anyone. I will be the first to congratulate them, though, when they win some big victories.
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:52:31 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Netz
Don’t sell the French short. Trust me. If they want to, they can kick some SERIOUS ass.
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:55:52 AM PST
by
tgusa
(gun control: hitting your target.)
To: RoosterRedux
The French have been fighting the mahamits for over 1500 years. Charles the Hammer (Charles Martel) saved Europe form the invading Barbarians. The Crusades also pushed them back.
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:57:39 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: RoosterRedux
Why do we not just call them what they are, not ISIS, ISIL, not AL queda not radical islamists, they are moslems, simply put, moslem.
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posted on
11/17/2015 5:57:50 AM PST
by
exnavy
(good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
To: tgusa
Agree. Their soldiers and airmen are good. The French problem is the same as ours: a political class consisting primarily of low intelligence failures doing the only job that will accept them.
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:00:23 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: LS
The same frogs that refused overflights of France when we went to Bomb Libya.
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:02:59 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
To: CodeToad
Good memory. Absolutely. Same “militaristic” French that wouldn’t help in Iraq.
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:04:05 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: mountainlion
Yep. And this may be a chance for them to regain the pride they lost in WWII.
To: RoosterRedux
Send in the Foreign Legion.
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:05:38 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: RoosterRedux
The French need to go back to being like the French in “The Day of the Jackal”, with the telephone-generator inquisition ...
that might get some results ...
To: tgusa
France is responding by adding jets to already planned US sorties. Also, we are giving France the target lists. So far, the strikes by France have been mostly symbolic.
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11/17/2015 6:07:19 AM PST
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:08:17 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: mountainlion
and 1492 was also a great year....Muzzys got whooped and thrown out of Spain....and something else happened too....LOL
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:08:40 AM PST
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long)
To: mountainlion
and 1492 was also a great year....Muzzys got whooped and thrown out of Spain....and something else happened too....LOL
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:08:41 AM PST
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long)
To: RoosterRedux
“Don’t Mess With the French Military”
Headline from early 1815 maybe.
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:10:22 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
To: tgusa
I hope to see the Frogs doing just that!
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posted on
11/17/2015 6:27:09 AM PST
by
Netz
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