Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 314053, member: 780"]
I know it's fun and even popular to bash the French, suggest they are cowards, etc.
 
But having spent quite a bit of time there, I have gotten their perspective. You'll have to be the judge if it makes sense.
 
In WWI, the French had 1,697,800 killed and 4,266,000 wounded. That's just shy of 6,000,000 purple hearts.
 
For comparison's sake only, the US in WWII had 292,000 killed. In Viet Nam we had 58,000 killed.
 
The French figured out that 1.7 million deaths and 4.3 million wounded were just about enough to make the point that fighting these Wars was just about insane ... from their perspective. They also had a good piece of their country trashed.
 
If instead of 58,000 killed in Viet Nam, we had 1.6 million killed, do you think it might have changed some minds on Iraq. That Wall in DC would have to run from the Lincoln Memorial to the US Capitol.
 
They also thought we were nuts to go into Viet Nam ... having gotten their asses kicked there. We probably should have listened to them a bit more closely. And they think it's insane that we would be in Iraq ... having had a nasty, nasty fight in Algeria against the same crowd.
 
I'd like an excuse to call them cowards too. But that 1.7 million graves suggests that they weren't.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?