March 13, 2003
UGLIER AND UGLIER (HE SMILED):
Americans turn fire on ungrateful nation (Roland Watson, Richard Beeston, Philip Webster and Elaine Monaghan, March 14, 2003, Times of London)AMERICAN hostility to France reached new heights yesterday when the remains of US servicemen buried in Normandy were dragged into the heat of battle over Iraq.A Florida congresswoman introduced a Bill on Capitol Hill that would allow the families of Second World War dead to dig up their bones and take them home.
Ginny Brown-Waite said that her American Heroes Repatriation Act 2003 was a response to constituents' concerns that their fathers and grandfathers were lying in "unpatriotic soil".
Hey, it was DeGaulle's idea to remove all American troops from French soil. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 13, 2003 8:12 PM
To be fair to the French, liberation of their country was only a by-product of Allied war aims in WW1 and WW2 not an end in itself.
And the French could justifiably claim WW1 and WW2 were simply payback for their aid during the American Revolution, which of course nearly bankrupted their economy and brought on their own uprising.
Ali:
Your point one is opposed to your point two.
So it's the Americans' fault for the froggies' revolution??
Those few years? Nothing else?
It was hardly the only factor.
But it was a contributing one.
On that basis, one could also put France's aid during the American Revolution as a by product of France's strategy to challenge the British Empire anywhere.
Moreover, while I am unable to verify/deny the relative significance of France's fiscal assistance to revolutionary America, I can safely assume that Americans paid a much higher blood price in our later efforts on their behalf.