From the Conservative Legion (thanks, Nate!):
Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and stone,
All buried on a distant land so far away from home.
For just a strip of dismal beach they paid a hero’s price,
To save a foreign nation they all made the sacrifice.
And now the shores of Normandyare lined with blocks of white,
Americans who didn’t turn from someone else’s plight.
Eleven thousand reasons for the French to take our side,
but in the moment of our need they chose to run and hide.
Chirac said every war means loss, perhaps for France that’s true,
For they’ve lost every battle since the days of Waterloo.
Without a soldier worth a damn to be found within the region,
The French became the only land to need a Foreign Legion.
You French all say we’re arrogant. Well hell, we’ve earned the right
We saved your sorry nation when you lacked the guts to fight.
But now you’ve made a big mistake, and one that you’ll regret;
You took sides with our enemies, and that we won’t forget.
It wasn’t just our citizens you spit on when you turned,
But every one of yours who fell the day the towers burned.
You spit upon our soldiers, on our pilots and Marines,
And now you’ll get a little sense of just what payback means.
So keep your Paris fashions and your wine and your champagne.
And find some other market that will buy your airplanes.
And try to find somebody else to wear your French cologne.
For you’re about to find out what it means to stand alone.
You see, you need us far more than we ever needed you.
America has better friends who know how to be true.
I’d rather stand with warriors who have the will and might.
Than huddle in the dark with those whose only flag is white.
I’ll take the Brits, the Aussies, the Israelis and the rest.
For when it comes to valor we have seen that they’re the best.
We’ll count on one another as we face a moment dire.
While you sit on the sideline with a sign, “friendship for hire.”
We’ll win this war without you and we’ll total up the cost.
And take it from your foreign aid and then you’ll feel the loss.
And when your nation starts to fall, well Frenchie, you can spare us.
Just call the Germans for a hand, they know the way to Paris.
©Copyright 2002 by Michael Marks
Kinda goes back to the whole “france’s history of war” thing. Their last win in war was what, the French Revolution? We cannot depend on them, cannot trust them.
BTW, love the blogexplosion banner.
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Excellent poem. Needs to be published in France
WOW – great blog!
I’d actually pay more to avoid a flight transfer in that country if I was heading to Europe.
Cao,
I just found your site off of the banner you put into blogexplosion!
The only problem is I’ve already got you linked through the American Flag League blogroll that Priate’s cove put together.
It’s a small world. Ciao Cao.
BTW: I just love conservative poetry.
Jeremy, I’ve been linked to you for a long time
thanks for the linky love-
Cao, I have a French military rifle for sale.
Mint condition,
- not even once shot,
- dropped twice
is it wrapped in a white flag? Does it say Vichy on it somewhere?
“is it wrapped in a white flag? Does it say Vichy on it somewhere?”
Come to think of it, yes, you’re right!
Does it increase the value of the merchandise?
Well, it doesn’t matter anymore since I decided to donate to the Iranian government.
After all it was the French who gave them their very first ruling Ayatollah.
This is so ******* sick! I’m so glad we, FRENCH, didnt give in. The war for oil is the most stupid thing i’ve ever heard and you guys will be able to count on you when your gov does sthg that is right for everyone. I don’t support Bush, like most of the French, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t like the American people! I think you are just so not open-minded. And btw, if you so hate France and everything that is related to it: give us back the statue of Liberty because incase you didn’t know, it was made and paid by French people (and not the government) who gave it to the American people as a gift. And if you don’t believe me, well check your history!!!
Nice language there, frenchie. Gosh, the anti-American french who’ve been visiting Cao’s Blog sure have a knack for always using terrible language. Is this the new french guide to etiquette as a guest in the comments section on someone else’s blog?
That was around 1865 when French and America considered themselves “sister” nations. How quickly the french forget, lol…Laboulaye commented at a dinner party, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people in France gave the United States a great monument as a lasting memorial to independence and thereby showed that the French government was also dedicated to the idea of human liberty?”
Seems like the french government and the french people have forgotten what that monument represented to them. Now it’s a monument to a friendship that no longer exists. (And a concept that they’ve forgot as well –when they support Saddam’s sadistic Ba’athist regime rather than representative government. Must be the thought of their monetary deals with the Ba’athists going down the drain)
#13: For your info there has been petitions signed and delivered to the US Senate/HOReps to have the Statue of Liberty returned to France. Americans don’t like the idea because they love that statue; but if France continues on the path it is currently taking, that opinion will change. The statue may yet go back.
Hey frenchie, you can have that damn trophy wife back. We no longer want the tired, the poor, the wretched refuse; We want the strong, the willing and the competent.
The French gave us a statue and we gave them our blood! Typical!!
You`re all a bunch of knuckleheads! Read on: The French Navy’s role in the success of the American Revolution is seldom acknowledged in general American histories. Yet it is difficult to see how American independence could have been won — at least in that particular war — against a regime that was the world’s acknowledge leading naval power in terms of ship inventory and recent combat exploits. Certainly, the undisputed expert on the war, General Washington, appreciated the critical importance of naval presence in the North American theater. As long as the British navy could support their army’s operations along the eastern coastline, the rebellion was doomed. The French naval success at the Second Battle of the Virginia Capes in September 1781 was ‘the keystone’ of the Yorktown Campaign, and provides dramatic testimony of the French Navy’s contribution to the American cause in that theater of operations. In all due respect to the modest Continental and American state navies, and to the spectacular performances of the American privateers, it was the Royal French Navy that was the only ‘standing navy’ to serve the American army in terms of engaging British naval formations and supporting land operations in North America.
You give us one example from–uh–1776? Now how long ago is that, Bob Evans? Gimme a break. WHO’s a knucklehead? What century are you living in?
France was humiliated after its defeat in the French and Indian Wars, and England was their enemy. It was in France’s self-interest to help the Americans; it was a way of getting back at the British.
Some very interesting things about the French versus the Americans….In Our Oldest Enemy, John J. Miller (co-author of the Book) describes the tenuous relationship between the US and France. And it’s much older than I ever imagined.
The most immediate influence was the recent unpleasantness with France over Iraq, but a deeper motivation was a desire to look at the pervasive myth of Franco-American friendship. If you listen to the commentary about relations between the United States and France, a lot of it assumes that France is America’s oldest friend–and that our two countries share a 200-year history of sweetness and light that began with Lafayette and somehow ended when our unrefined, cowboy president came into office and made a mess of things. This is nonsense. Franco-American history is a 300-year story of friction and hostility. From the French and Indian Wars to the Quasi War of the 1790s to the U.S. Civil War to Versailles to the Vichy regime to de Gaulle in the Cold War–when you study the historical record, it becomes clear that the jousting over Iraq is really nothing new. People always wonder about the period of the American Revolution, but it was an anomaly, and even then it’s poorly understood–the French entered the war for entirely self-interested reasons and behaved treacherously toward the Americans during the peace talks. There’s a lot more to it than Yorktown.
The French suffer from a very bad case of wounded national pride. Three hundred years ago, they ruled a globe-spanning empire. But ever since their defeat in the final French and Indian War–known in Europe as the Seven Years War–they’ve traveled on a downward trajectory. Napoleon provided a brief and bloody interruption to this relentless decline. At the same time, the French have watched the United States grow in power. Our gains mirror their losses. This has resulted in a tremendous sense of jealousy that embodies itself, nowadays, in a distinctly anti-American geopolitical outlook.
Many in France believe a one-superpower world is a dangerous world, even when the superpower is benign. So they talk of balancing American “hyperpower”–and for them “balancing” is a euphemism for “opposing.” This is what Francois Mitterand spoke about shortly before his death: “We are at war with America,” he said. “A permanent war … a war without death. They are very hard, the Americans–they are voracious. They want undivided power over the world.” This hardcore anti-American outlook makes it possible for French leaders to say some pretty outrageous things. Just a couple of weeks ago, French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced, “The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies.” What kind of friend or ally talks like that?
The notion that France has ever been a steadfast ally is a pernicious myth that serves French interests, not American ones. If France were America’s oldest ally, it wouldn’t have backstabbed the colonists at the end of the American Revolution, become the first military foe of the United States (following the ratification of the Constitution), sought to split our nation in two during the Civil War, accommodated the Soviet Union during the Cold War, quit NATO in the 1960s, or harassed the Bush administration over Iraq.
Here is Jamie Glazov’s interview with him, it’s very interesting.
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