| Greedy,Greedy,Greedy |
09-30-2004 07:05 PM |
a new must-Read
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
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From Amazon
Americans were shocked when French president Jacques Chirac played a leading role in opposing America’s position during the Iraq crisis. In OUR OLDEST ENEMY, the authors demonstrate that France has never been our friend, has always been our rival, and has often been our enemy.
Miller and Molesky return to America’s earliest history, relating the little-known story of the Deerfield Massacre of 1704, when a group of French and Indians massacred settlers in northern Massachusetts. They show that the French came to America’s aid only at the end of the Revolution and then with the interest of harming the British; during the Civil War, they supported the Confederacy. In the twentieth century, French demands at the Versailles Peace Conference paved the way for the rise of fascism in Germany and eventually required America to rescue France during World War II. The postwar period was also rife with disastrous actions on the part of the French, including Charles de Gaulle’s decision to pull out of NATO and his obstruction of American efforts to turn back Soviet expansion. French imperialism left troubling legacies as well: America’s involvement in Vietnam followed decades of conflict between the French and the Vietnamese; the genocidal Cambodian dictator Pol Pot was a product of French higher education; even the Baathist regimes in Syria and Iraq can be traced to French influences.
Candid and absorbing, OUR OLDEST ENEMY provides an authoritative explanation for the explosive anger toward France that has swept across America and continues to shape debates about our foreign policy and role in the world
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Of course, I'm still bitter about Deerfield, but is France really our oldest enemy? I mean, Deerfield was years after we kicked those Dutch assholes out of New York, and Bilmore was just telling me the other day about back when he was a kid and the Spanish Armada ruled the seas - they were real bastards toward some of our privateers, uh, ships. And, let's not forget, the damn Indians were just waiting to scalp some of our ancestors as they came over.
And then I was talking to Hank and he said that back when he was a kid (this is years before Poiters and Agincourt, where he ran around the battlefield hacking Knights in two and yelling "Canned Frogs Legs, Anyone?") the real enemy wasn't the French but those bastards from up north (no, not the Canadians, the Vikings, you fools).
(Edited to add, look, just so no one thinks I'm soft on the snail-eaters, let me say that if we could drop a bomb on France that would drown anyone who ever disagreed with us -- and by us I mean George W. Bush, his Momma, and me -- in cream sauce I would, and I've even add garlic first) |
