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To: Eternal_Bear
Damn... I tuned into this thread hoping for some good French jokes, and there's not a one - just a bunch of stuffy history lessons. (Damn... I've ended up having to learn something instead... oh well.)

It really does appear that the French only turned into cheese-eating surrender monkeys after Napoleon got whacked. But even a Frenchman will admit that (if you get enough wine into him, at least...).

However...:

If the American Army of May 1940 had faced the German Army they would have folded in 6 days not 6 weeks like the French did.

Not on American soil, the way the French did on French soil, dude... Not in 6 days, 6 weeks, 6 months... Not in your lifetime... Not even today, with armies of Clinton-voting soccer mommies whining for "accomodation" and "understanding"...

72 posted on 09/07/2002 1:05:33 AM PDT by fire_eye
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To: fire_eye
In 1940 America didn't really have an Army so hes probably correct though if we had more dangerous neighbors we probably would. There would be less guerilla warfare even in America against a Nazi occupation then you think. Every time a resistance person killed a German the Nazis would go hang 10 or 100 people in the town where it happened at random. There is no resistance after a couple incidents like that( and the reason all the effective resistance to the Nazis came from communist is they didn't care about anyone else).
81 posted on 09/07/2002 10:09:41 AM PDT by weikel
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