my Question Is, Why Are Some Americans Hell-bent On Constantly Ripping France, And Hijacking An Otherwise Intelligent Discussion On The Piracy Problems Off The Coast Of Somalia? I'm Curious Where This Francophobia And Hatred Is Rooted. Can Someone Provide Some Insight? And Isn't This Hypocrisy, Given How Much We Complain About Anti-americanism Abroad (which Is
far More Widespread Around The World Than Anti-frenchism)? Maybe We Need To Rip On Past Superpowers In Order To Cope With Our Own Declining Empire? Why Do Americans Have Such A Fixation With Wwii, But A Complete Loss Of Memory For Everything That's Occurred Since Then? Last I Checked, Vietnam Wasn't A Success (of Course, This Is The "fault Of Liberals"), But Even The Initially Popular 2003 Iraq Invasion Was An Ill-conceived Disaster Until [arguably] The 2007 Military Surge After Which
afghanistan Took A Severely Sour Turn. And Even The Effectiveness Of The Surge Is Not Considered Sustainable By Middle East Experts. Fuck, Even The
korean War -which Has Been Spun Into A Victory By The Military-industrial Propaganda Complex- In Reality Ended In A Truce. But Again, Let's Wave Wwii In Everyone's Face, Demanding That The World Owes Us Big, And Completely Disregard The Help Of The Brits, Canadians, And Russians Without Whom It's Uncertain If We'd Win (let Alone Underground Resistance Movements In Europe And Asia). And Our Righteous Actions In Wwii Then Somehow Justify Our Meddling In Domestic Affairs Of Foreign Nations
since Then, Removing Heads Of State And Installing Dictators Wherever We Saw Fit, While Lecturing The World On Democracy. And Then -somehow- American Foreign Policy's Biggest Cheerleaders -the Mass Media- Have A "liberal And Anti-american Bias".
Are We Bitter That Our Own Empire Has Shown Its First Signs Of Decline? Are We Bitter That France Opposed Our Invasion Of Iraq, Even Though Most Of Us Now Admit That Was A Mistake? So, We Want The World To Blindly Follow Us Even When We're Wrong, Rather Than Point It Out To Us When We're Making A Grave Mistake? Isn't That What Allies Are For, Anyways? Even After We Refused To Share Our Intelligence (on Islamic Terrorism) With The France After The Bombing Of The Paris Metro And Hijacking Of An Air France Flight In The 1990s, They
still Backed Us 100% On Afghanistan And Now Back Us 100% On Iran. But They Had The Dignity To
diplomatically Oppose What They Thought Was A Mistake On Our Part, And We Didn't Like That. We Preach Democracy, But We Don't Like It When The Majority Of Un And Security Council Members Don't Vote Along The Same Lines As Us. That's When We Start To Rip On The World, And Discredit The Un,
even Though, Since The Late 1980s, The United States Has Been Using Its Security Council Veto More Often Than Any Other Security Council Member. And Then We Dug Deep And Found Some Vague Economic Ties Between France And Iraq -completely Ignoring Our Own Role With Arming Saddam Hussein In The 1980s, Turning A Blind Eye To His Genocide Against The Kurds, And
encouraging His Intentions To Annex Kuwait- Only To Quietly Hush Down When Light Was Shed On Underground Economic Dealings Between
prominent Americans And American Companies And Post-gulf War Iraq.
Ironically, French Public Opinion -while Certainly In Opposition To The Iraq Invasion- Did Not Oppose It As Much As
other European Countries Did. 65% Of French Citizens Opposed The War, According To Gallup (about The Same Amount Of Britons), While Levels In Other Countries Were Significantly Higher (around 75% In Germany, 88% In Italy, 90% In Spain And Switzerland, To The Best Of My Memory). But, Of Course, You Can Always Count On
americans To Dutifully Believe And Do As They're Told, And Give The War A 65% Approval Rating, With A One-sided Media Manipulated By The Pentagon And Corporate Interests, Broadcasting Pro-war Propaganda To The American Public Until It Was Too Late (2006-ish).
