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"Cub Driver" wrote in message

I never said they did, only that the UK has a military that actually
works.

To be entirely fair, so does France.
They do? When did they last actually DO anything with it?


What about using your Internet access to get one or two clues about how
the
world *actually* goes and went during those last 20 years?

What about providing some relevant cites?


France has done especially well in African messes.
So has Belgium. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.


So hasn't the United States in Somalia.


Before the U.S. bombed Gaddafi, for example,
the French had a small army in Chad (was it Chad? oh God I can't
remember) that whupped Gaddafi's invasion.

Yes, and as I recall, the US had a large hand in getting the French
there
and then supporting them.


A "large hand"? Would you care to develop? Or is it just another outward
sign of your "nothing-happens-on-this-earth-without-us" syndrom?

Well, lets see. France had no strategic airlift, so the US stepped in to
get trrops and equipment into country. France couldn't support themselves
once deployed, so the US stepped in again.