Does anyone else think that its odd how the MSM tried to turn American opinion against the French since 9/11. I remember articles about renaming french toast and french frys to freedom frees. I remember reading about wanting to return the Statue of Liberty. I almost feel like the narrative has been trying to sow hatred amongs people for a long time. Realistically, the French have been a good ally to us for 250 years.
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Yeahno, not so fast.
The french reneged on our deal to hit saddam, it cost us lives. That is where Freedom Fries comes from.
In WWII the french fired on us as we landed in North Africa to liberate Africa from the NAZIs. They did a LOT of damage to us even after that, Patton famously said he'd rather have a German division in front of him than a french division beside him, and for good reasons. Prior to that right at the beginning of the war some of our people fled the Philippines and made their way to french-indochina, they asked the french there to help them escape to India or somewhere else. The french acted as if they would, they fed our people and acted as if they were friends. But they had already contacted the Japanese to come and take them all prisoner.
After the war Degaulle refused to let us base NATO forces in france, forced us to base in Britain which meant our F-105s didn't have the range to hit the expected Soviet routes of invasion. france refused to become full NATO partners, saying instead that if Russia invaded they would then turn out to help us.
french forces could not be used later in actions against terrorists because they had refused to train with us for so long it simply wasn't worth having them.
Going back to colonial America the french made war against us - the french and Indian wars for example. Ben Franklin spent years in france trying to get them to help us, they refused until it was pointedly in their favor to aid us.
No the french have never been Good Allies, at best they have been intransigent and a burden.
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Ypu make good pounts about landing in N Africa and all the others.