Wearing a beret doesn’t make a Frenchman tough. It takes guts, training, and a willingness to fight. Just read about the disbanded French Foreign Legion survivors and our Green Berets.
Ayrault’s version of “getting tough” means wearing a “Raspberry Beret” and drinking a hot coffee latte’ with cream, 1939 style.
Too true. The Foreign Legion though is just that, foreigners. There are tough French though: I don’t mean to malign those ones. But they don’t seem to be in charge.