Choose a side: Al Qaida declares war on France

JR - the Germans were equally decimated by WWI because they were fighting for a long time on two fronts.

The US entrance into WWI absolutely won the war.

JR tells people to keep their smugness and check and I'm the one calling the kettle black?

 

Just saying - many a truth is said in jest

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-frencharmyknife.htm

 

More Americans died fighting in WWII than French died in our War for Independence.
Understood.
The U.S., however, didn't have much of an option left by the time we entered WWII.
The French could have easily told us to go screw when we asked for help.

 

Buck - actually the French kinda did tell us to go screw. It was only until after we won the battle of Saratoga (led by Benedict Arnold BTW) that the French decided that they could use this war to try and screw the British.

 

The German casualties in WW1 were about 50% of their mobilized forces, substantially less than the French.
But you're missing the point. The Germans initiated WW2.

U.S. entry into WW1 was a huge help in winning the war.

Absolutely? Only in your dreams.

 

Actually, Buck, I thnk your original sentiment, that that we still owe the French, is probably the reason they've been so useless, smug, condescending, etc. ever since.

Ya, the French didn't have any stake whatsoever in seeing the English lose the Revolutionary War.

 

Sorry, but how should this debt of gratitude play out exactly? And the French owe it to more than just the Americans.

 

You know, folks, just because the French don't get down and suck a big American dick doesn't mean they're smug and condescending.

You know, just the same as if you're against Fredo's Little Adventure doesn't make you either anti-American or for the terrorists.

 

JR - Germany had 1.7 million military dead from WWI while France had 1.3 million military deaths. I can see how in your strange twisted figuring that France got the worst of that.

You are missing the point. This thread is not about the Germans.

This thread is about the military incompetence of the French.

And the US entry into WWI was the decisive factor whether you can admit it or not. (Denying it actually makes you look foolish)

 

Wasn't the American Revolution an uprising by terrorist insurgents? ;D