tscottme wrote :

Like I said the French hope nothing unusual happens and then are
thoroughly unprepared when it does.

Your sentence doesn't mean anything ...

Do I say that the USA were not prepared to the september the 11th ?

In 1994, a French Airbus was hijacked by islamists who wanted to crash
it on Paris. All terrorist were killed by french spécial forces GIGN
(you know, the "surrending monkeys").
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html