Way off topic, but it has do to with the French

Gig 601XL Builder wrote in news:13so54kfvgqqb93
@news.supernews.com:

wrote:


Perhaps your minor in history didn't cover The Great War, the
Napoleonic Wars, or the Seven Year's War.

Look those up and then come back and discuss France's place in world
history.

My master's in History and I will be waiting.


Dan



Well Rome used to rule the known world. It hasn't translated well into
modern military or even diplomatic power for Italy.


Yes, but they terrific coffee and very reasonably priced high quality
restaurants. Not to mention Alfa Romeos and the ability to look cool even
when riding a motor scooter.

What else could you want?


Bertie

Jay Honeck schrieb:

But what else is new?

Nothing. You're still an ignorant.

#m

Martin Hotze wrote in news:fqf060$p1b$1
@kirk.hotze.com:

Jay Honeck schrieb:

But what else is new?

Nothing. You're still an ignorant.

#m

That'd be "you're still ingnorant" or "you're an ignoramous" or You're as
ignorant as a toilet brush"


Not a grammar lame, just constructive cirticism..

Bertie

On Mar 3, 2:37*am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:


If you're trying to say the Resistance acted as a moral counter-balance to
the vast majority of French who sat on their hands whilst under the yoke of
the most immoral regime in modern history, you'd be wrong.

But what else is new?

Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

Cheers

WingFlaps wrote in
:

On Mar 3, 2:37*am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:


If you're trying to say the Resistance acted as a moral
counter-balance to

the vast majority of French who sat on their hands whilst under the
yoke o
f
the most immoral regime in modern history, you'd be wrong.

But what else is new?

Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

If he's anything, he's consistent.

he's categorically incapable of rethinking anything.

He's a kook!


Bertie

Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin, and another 30 years of World War
II studies under my belt. My father was a Captain in the US Army Air Corps
during the war, and was stationed in France and Germany in 1945. To assume
I'm not intimately familiar with France's wartime history and post-war
behavior is presumptuous.

Sorry if stating facts hurts your pride, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em. The
fact remains that the French were humiliated in 1940, many French acted
dishonorably under the Nazi yoke, and they have yet to fully come to terms
with their fate as a former world power.

Don't despair, however. WRT France not gracefully accepting their lessened
global position, they aren't alone. Every dominant world power eventually
faces the same fate, and the U.S.'s turn is coming.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:fqGyj.5806$TT4.3619@attbi_s22:

Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin,




Oow!

and another 30 years of
World War II studies under my belt. My father was a Captain in the US
Army Air Corps during the war, and was stationed in France and Germany
in 1945. To assume I'm not intimately familiar with France's wartime
history and post-war behavior is presumptuous.

Sorry if stating facts hurts your pride, but I calls 'em as I sees
'em. The fact remains that the French were humiliated in 1940, many
French acted dishonorably under the Nazi yoke, and they have yet to
fully come to terms with their fate as a former world power.

Don't despair, however. WRT France not gracefully accepting their
lessened global position, they aren't alone. Every dominant world
power eventually faces the same fate, and the U.S.'s turn is coming.



You're an idiot.


Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote:
Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin, and another 30 years of World
War II studies under my belt. My father was a Captain in the US Army
Air Corps during the war, and was stationed in France and Germany in
1945. To assume I'm not intimately familiar with France's wartime
history and post-war behavior is presumptuous.

Sorry if stating facts hurts your pride, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
The fact remains that the French were humiliated in 1940, many French
acted dishonorably under the Nazi yoke, and they have yet to fully come
to terms with their fate as a former world power.

Don't despair, however. WRT France not gracefully accepting their
lessened global position, they aren't alone. Every dominant world power
eventually faces the same fate, and the U.S.'s turn is coming.

Maybe sooner than we think as we are now outsourcing our military to
France! :-)

Matt

Matt Whiting wrote in
:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this
thread. I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin, and another 30 years of
World War II studies under my belt. My father was a Captain in the
US Army Air Corps during the war, and was stationed in France and
Germany in 1945. To assume I'm not intimately familiar with
France's wartime history and post-war behavior is presumptuous.

Sorry if stating facts hurts your pride, but I calls 'em as I sees
'em. The fact remains that the French were humiliated in 1940, many
French acted dishonorably under the Nazi yoke, and they have yet to
fully come to terms with their fate as a former world power.

Don't despair, however. WRT France not gracefully accepting their
lessened global position, they aren't alone. Every dominant world
power eventually faces the same fate, and the U.S.'s turn is coming.

Maybe sooner than we think as we are now outsourcing our military to
France! :-)

And why not? If, as is often claimed, they are in fact making the things at
a loss and at the expense of the government, you can bankrupt them in
revenge by buying loads of 'busses.


Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote:
Well you've not shown yourself in a good light at all in this thread.
I think you should rethink you attitudes and preconceptions.

I don't have attitudes and preconceptions -- but I do have a minor in
history from the University of Wisconsin,

Where everyone majors in drinking...

(If they're not out raping roadkill deer, that is.)