[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.

[Ipberg]

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. -- Douglas William Jerrold

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. -- Charles de Gaulle

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions. -- Christina Stead

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. -- Gertrude Stein

There's something Vichy about the French. -- Ivor Novello

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. -- John Dos Passos

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. -- Van Wyck Brooks

[JohnGalt]

That's the funny part really. I get called a Hitler worshipper for suggesting we should have left the French to the Nazi's and Stalin, and on this thread I'm made out to be a Francophile.

My only comment is that the French solidier is as brave and capable as the next, it was their leadership that was corrupt, uneducated, and incompetent; same with the Italian Army during WW2. The French are still a better friend who have contributed several great works to Western culture and they did keep out the Muslim Hordes.

France, like Germany, has been a battleground for so long, can you blame them for wanting peace? Where as Britian and the United States have had skirmishes on the edges of empire to no better avail I might add, save an ugly 'win' in the Philipines War over a hundred years ago. (Grenada, I believe is something to be quite proud of, on the otherhand, TY RR.)

[JohnGalt]

I suggest a quick study of the Junker's Prussia. Our country adopted most of our welfare state ideas, let alone modeled out army, after their country.