'In defence of the French'

Advena July 27th, 2006 in General

Quite so - or should I say touche (excuse the accentless e).

I don’t really understand the US’s anti-French thing - didn’t France play an important role in US History? Perhaps the US should return the statue of Liberty (the neocons have drained it of all meaning anyway) and rename Baton Rouge Red Stick

From Idiot Nation By John S. Hatch at Information Clearing House

“I’m always amazed at American hostility toward the French which could only be as the result of massive willful ignorance on the part of America (no surprise there - myth has long since supplanted meaning in American polity). “Surrender monkeys,” some of you call them. But I seem to recall a vigorous and brave resistance movement involving men and women willing to put their lives on the line to counter the brutal Nazis onslaught in any way they could. Many were captured and tortured to death, while America stood idly by, only joining the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it impossible not to. I notice no counterpart to the Resistance in America in defense of the Constitution, in reaction to stolen elections, the suspension of habeas corpus, the commission of heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan and Iraq, and (it’s hard to even write this) the implementation of “extraordinary renditions” and torture, which virtually all experts agree is useless as a method of extracting useful information., meaning that America indulges in brutish sadism for its own sake. Just like Nasser. Just like the Shah. Torture! For shame!

When the French government proposes some boneheaded measure against the interests of young workers, there they are in the tens or hundreds of thousands in the streets, and they won’t go away until the government relents. And if you’re the government you better not provoke French farmers, or you’ll have a real and sustained fight on your hands. They’re not afraid to get bloody to defend what they believe in. What do Americans do in response to even more egregious insults to their dignity and civil rights? Well, they go and shop at Wal-Mart. Freedom fries, anyone? It’s not only French Cabernet Sauvignon that got poured down the gutters by gutless American politicians. It was also America’s pride. “

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