[JohnGalt]

Number of French Dead in World War II through June 1940: 120,000

Number of American dead in Korean and Vietnam Wars combined: 95,000

Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless

Courtesy, The American Conservative.

[Live free or die]

Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless

Oh come now sir, I'm surprised at you! Let me provide you with a little contrast:

It's well documented that the French had the largest land army in Europe at the start of WWII and its equally well documented that the Poles didn't. Yet the Poland took longer for the Germans to conquer even with more troops to do it with. After the occupation Polish resistance to the German military took the form of the Polish Home Army and huge numbers of soldiers and airmen escaping to th Russians and British. The French "resistance" took the shape of a pathetically small number of fanatics terrorizing Vichy collaborators' women and children.

You bring up Vietnam...isn't the finest exploit of "French" military bravery exhibited by the French Foreign Legion? And even when that wasn't enough...did w not have to come and bail them out again?

Comparing the numbers of dead for us and them is infuriating and wrong. It proves nothing.

[Polybius]

Number of French Dead in World War II through June 1940: 120,000

Number of American dead in Korean and Vietnam Wars combined: 95,000

Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless

Number of estimated Iraqi Dead in Gulf War One: 60,000 to 200,000

Number of estimated Iraqi Deserters in Gulf War One: 150,000

Rhetorical value of equating the numberof casualties with bravery: Zero

If death toll equated with bravery, zooplankton would qualify as the bravest organisms in the Animal Kingdom.

[Colt .45]

Yet we can all thank France for establishing the first modern police state which was the fore-runner of all other totalitarian regimes ... Napoleon's France. I have nothing but contempt for the French ... as my father who served during WWII told me ... "What do you expect from people who fight with their feet and f**k with their faces?"

Having served and been to France myself, I personally, wouldn't walk across the street to piss in their mouths if their teeth were on fire.