Perhaps what you should be asking is why people worship France? Of course, the French should be proud of their culture and history. But they and their worshipers just take it too far. In many cases they even treat the worshipers dismissively, and said worshipers masochistically eat that up.
Just read the earlier thread on this very same subject. Here’s my post from it:
rowrrbazzle:
EVERYBODY hates France.
The plain, unvarnished truth—which the whole political community does everything it can to hide—is that France has become one of the least popular countries on the planet. I have already mentioned its arrogance and vanity. To these should be added the way our rulers presume to lecture the entire world.
Jacques Julliard, “Sur une déculotée,” Le Nouvel Observateur , July 19, 2001, after the poor reception to France’s offer to host the 2008 Olympics. Quoted in the book Anti-Americanism by Jean-François Revel.
That sums it up pretty well.
My post from a thread about the 2005 Paris riots:
“Effects of L.A. Riots Reach Across the Ocean”, San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 21, 1992 (emphasis added):
… the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs .
Jean Daniel, editor of the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, bible of the intellectual left, wrote an essay on the Los Angeles events titled “Is It Possible in France?” …
But, Daniel concluded that France’s biggest advantage in avoiding racial and class tensions is its extensive social programs, which essentially guarantee free education and health care for life as well as generous allowances for the unemployed. “France can take comfort in the major, incontestable fact that its social laws are a thousand times more protective than in New York or Los Angeles ,” commented Daniel.
Then there’s this item http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/18/opinion/france-america-relationship/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
In other words, Obama behaved like them. But they also didn’t like Bush because he was a cowboy.
:rolleyes: It’s a bit late to play for sympathy.