"George Z. Bush" wrote in message

"Ragnar" wrote in message
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"Brian" wrote in message
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Jeez, talk about yesterdays views - get off the France bashing
already and get back into life - I supposed you have stopped
eating French Fries too?

And yes, France does have an Army - one that is very strong with
very good equipment - the Le Clerc being comparable to the
vaunted M1.

How many battles has the Le Clerc been in?

France is an independant country and that in itself was one
reason for deciding to withdraw from NATO - so they could pursue
their own course of action.

Umm, they didn't "pull out" of NATO. They very conveniently stayed
in just enough to whine about stuff but far enough out to never
actually do any
work.

Actually, they did pull out of NATO. By March 1966, deGaulle had
withdrawn France from NATO and its command structure because he felt
that France needed to be independent of joint security

Not exactly correct. France withdrew from the NATO military command
structure but remained a member of the Atlantic Coucil and other political
aspects of NATO.

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