[Windshark]

We should first insure free access to French wine.

Their only fine accomplishment.....cept for popularizing the Bikini.

After we secure their vinyards and wineries we should let the Iraqis take the rest of the country.

[Diogenesis]

[weikel]

Well the Gauls did win a lot of the Wars and Caesar's army was in large part Gallic and German auxillaries( Caesar loved German troops). The French got slaughtered generally in the Hundred Years War but did not surrender and from the time of King Henry IV( the Hugenot king who converted back to Catholicism) to Waterloo the French were relatively successful but after Waterloo they've been horrible.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Isn't it about time for the Germans to forget to set the parking breaks on their tanks and conquer France again?

[DoctorMichael]

Those that don't know any history are destined to repeat it.

Bump.

[Cicero]

But the Gauls always beat the Romans in the Asterix comics.

[weikel]

And as for the NVA don't mention them they have NEVER lost a war( someone mentioned that the Chicoms have never lost a war I corrected him and said that they lost to the Vietnamese shortly after we did).

[Live free or die]

You TOO can conquer France!

Really? Do I have to take a number or something?

[weikel]

France vs. Germany - WWI 1914-1918 A.D. (Germany beats the hell out of France - without the aid of USA, France would be speaking German. France only won because of Uncle Sam jumped in - then those dumbass sore-winners in France impose an incredibly harsh Treaty of Versailles to punish the Germans. Notice the resulting conditions of this allowed the rise of an unknown Austrian named HITLER.

Bump and the world would be much better off if the old KaiserReich won WWI but it should be noted that many of the most pernicious provisions of the treaty of Versailles bore the stamp of our worst President ever. I would have Bill Clinton rule as a king for 100 years rather than suffer a term of Woodrow Wilson.

[fhayek]

France vs. France - French Revolution 1789 - 1799A.D. (France kicks their own asses)

If I were French, I would feel compelled to kick my own ass too.

[ReaganIsRight]

I was really waiting for the air war in the first Gulf war because I wanted to see all the French Iraqii Mirage fighters splattered all over the desert.

They were smart enough not to come out and play. Let's see what happens this time.

[Isle of sanity in CA]

ROTFLMAO!!! A little French bashing is a good way to start the weekend...

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

The French flag should be all yellow like the people.

[Darksheare]

I have repeatedly said that the smart Frenchies left France long ago.

The French also came up with the monokini.. sorta a topless bikini....

[keithtoo]

Dont forget the French lost Algeria. And Algeria didn't even have an army!!!!!!!!!!!

But Algeria does have a place to send its Arab/Muslim malcontents - France.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Nuff Said.

[another cricket]

You forget the Norman French beating the tar out of the Anglo-Saxons. But since Guillaume Le Bâtard was more Saxon and Viking then he was French that might not count.

a.cricket

[LS]

You left out the most important one of all: Algeria, 1954-1958. As British historian Paul Johnson said, this "left France without a soul." I think he is right. Their failure in Algeria convinced them that it is impossible to use force well, or morally.

[Cornjonny]

Down with all cheese-eating, surrender-monkey, Euro-Trash!!

[LS]

Let me add, though, to jump to Waterloo and miss 1798 to 1807, when French armies (after 1800, under Napoleon) utterly obliterated the rest of Europe's finest, is simply silly. This was a French army ALWAYS outnumbered (often 2:1 or 3:1) that force an entire Austrian army of 100,000 to surrender without a shot, they had been so badly beaten; and a French army that defeated two major enemies in two different battles at the same time (Jena/Auerstadt). Even Waterloo was a close thing, and a few minor changes in events would have left Napoleon the winner there, too.

Also, it is simply off to say that Martel defeated a "raiding party." He completely stopped Muslim expansion, because they had no answer for his massed infantry (the "wall of steel") or his stirruped-cavalry.