I suppose you’re not counting the time they saved your land for you?
The time they “saved our land” for us?
Ironically enough, sir, they weren’t acting out of any kindness or fondness. They were acting out of their own self interest in that matter.
They were, after all, no friend of the British.
So, compare that to now. They act out of their own self interest 200 years ago (and many times afterward, including the Iraq situation) and they are praised for it. We act out of our self interest now and we’re vilified for it anytime we do it. Hmmm…just something to think about.
sigh I thought someone would say something like that. Look - all I feel is that practically everything that’s been happening recently between France and the U.S., from the average citizen up to grown men supposedly mature enough to lead a country (Freedom fries? How disgustingly insulting can you get?) is moronic to being Kafkaesque. People who weren’t even alive when Hitler was around are turning a heroic saga of determination and sacrifice against evil into a “you owe me now” type of favour. Can’t anyone see how debasing that is???
I’ve seen you in some other threads ADUSAF, and I don’t think you think that way, but the five hundredth time I’ve come across this type of thing I just got really annoyed, like Major Kong did, even if he was somewhat off track. Perhaps the whole shallow smugness I’ve seen made me want to be the same back for a change; I suppose that was somewhat low of me too. But I’d still kick the ass of any Canadian who says that England “owes us one” for D-day.
I don’t. I just like to keep things in the proper perspective, and I’m pretty blunt about it most of the time. 
I agree Nanoda … but for some of us seeing for the first, and not the 500th time, it’s laugh-out loud funny. Sorry.
The French saved us out of their own self-interest, and we saved them out of ours.
We were, after all, no friend of the Axis Powers.
I’m very tired of Americans slogging the French for the way they conduct their affairs. The French aren’t RUDE; they are DIFFERENT.
And personally, I would prefer that my friends or allies or whatever would have the backbone to say to me, “I can’t back you up on stances with which I do not agree.” I don’t like surrounding myself with yes-men.
The first Google Bomb was very funny.
It’s been a steep decline since then.
The fact that the majority of the civilised world is currently criticizing US foreign policy is not funny in the least. It means that perhaps GWB is doing something wrong.
As for WWII, while most (practically ALL) Europeans are eternally grateful for the American and Canadian liberators, it is a simplification to state that US troops just came over because they thought Hitler was being a meanie. In fact, had Pearl Harbor not been bombed, the US involvement in the liberation of Europe would have been vastly different, if not non-existant. I’m not glad PH was bombed, but I AM glad that US troops did land on our shores to rid Europe of the Nazis. I have eternal respect for those who died to preserve my freedom.
And I still reserve the right to criticize every single damn US administration if I think it’s fucking up.
Just because the US and most of Europe are allies, just because the US played a major part in liberating us, doesn’t mean we just have to blindly accept any US policy that GWB tries to cram down the collective international throat.
Can sone of the moderators please close this thread since my OP was in error?
Thank you.
Did they really save the country? You have to have pitched three wars before a true save can be recorded, or enter a war with a casualty lead of fewer than three. The rules say so.