Are the french born cowards?

Question

They let the Germans roll over them without a fight and now they still don't do anything!

Answer 1

They have a new "Action Hero" coming soon. Its hand are already up when he comes out of the box!

Answer 2

For the most part,the french are born losers and cowards! Though they may have a few good leaders here and there ...its there upper ranks that are incompetent. The French government is the real cowards that drag their military down...

The French got their butts handed too them by the Germans,that's for sure, but there were many reasons that caused that too happen....

The French put their faith in the Maginot Line....a series of forts and bunkers along the German border....all the Germans had too do was go around it and isolate it...that trapped a very large portion of the french army.... also the french never did organize there units properly....they had some very good tanks, some even better then what the Germans fielded but they did not group them together they spread them out to many other units....the french believed that it was the tank that was too support the infantry were as the Germans thought of it as the infantry is there to support the tank.... as for Paris had they not left it and declared it an open city it would have been bombed too hell like Rotterdam.

Answer 3

It’s really a toss-up on which is worse: The question, or the majority of the answers.

The French are some of the last people on earth who should be accused of cowardice. An excess of bravado, certainly – witness Crecy, Agincourt, Pavia – but not cowardice, and certainly not from Americans. Keep in mind that America itself owes its existence to French aid during the Revolutionary War. Wind the clock back a bit further and you’ll find that the progenitors of the French, the Franks under Charlemagne, fighting the Moors to a standstill likely kept most of the ancestors of the people on this thread from becoming Muslim converts by the sword.

France has a fairly great military tradition, going as far back as when the Gauls contested Gaius Julius Caesar’s legions. French military might was nothing to be laughed at under kings such as Charles V or Louis XIV. France completely dominated Europe under Napoleon, crushing armies from Jena to Austerlitz. Even in modern times, France has fought with admirable ferocity, even if not under the best intentions in brushfire wars from Algeria to Indochina, and most recently, in Chad, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and the Ivory Coast.

Those who are loudest and most vociferous about the supposed lack of French courage are most often noncombatants themselves who will never fire a shot in anger. Franco-American relations are more meaningful than idiots from either side yammering abuse. Considering French and German intelligence agencies and security services are invaluable allies in the War on Terror, and the French are far less accommodating with regards to extremist Muslim sentiment than American tolerance taken to a fault, maybe it would do for idiots on both sides of the Atlantic to reassess who the enemies really are in this war.

Answer 4

The French were with us in our fight against the British, they had strong fighting people in all wars that I know of. Their society is old and many think twice before they commit to a war. I respect the French!

We Americans and the French are like an old Married couple, yelling at one another all the time. Let an outsider come in and threaten either one of us and we will stand together and fight.

My opinion is the French are wrong a lot! They think we are wrong a lot! Besides, they make great cars!

Answer 5

The french military had no chance fighting the Nazis, there would have been millions and millions of civilians killed. As you remember (or apparently don't) the Americans were no where near ready to help. If you had two or three kids would you allow them to be incinerated by german bombs within a few weeks, (a certainty at that time) or would you bide your time and take your chances once your enemy was weaker?

Answer 6

Its a well known fact and they have left the Brits to fight battles on their own,the only decent group they have got is the French foreign legion but even then the Brits are the best in there

Answer 7

Hi! You are correct...during ww2 Hitler was hundreds of miles away in Germany making a speech - saying he was going to invade France.. the smelly frogs ran up the white flags as soon as they heard what he said. Have you heard of the French resistance - aka the underground movement... that's because they hid underground ! They were responsible for the deaths of many British servicemen who tried to help them. France is just a region of Germany.

Answer 8

hmm..granted they dont have a really illustrious military history

but i get frustrated when chirac was trying to place himself in some leadership position to oppose the war against Iraq. lets not forget that he and saddam have had a long friendship based on lucrative business deals

i am glad that chirac is working his *** off to get back into the US's good books

i dont know if you all know about this but one time, when donald rumsfield was having a press conference on the ongoing war in iraq, some irritating french reporter, was going on and on about how the war is wrong and immoral etc etc

and rummy just looked at him and said," tell me do you speak german?"

"no"

"you're welcome"

brilliant. that sure shut the frenchman up

but i did read too that the majority of french hate chirac and that french people generally hate the parisians. i dont really like them too. the few that i met on my trip there were really rude and arrogant.

Answer 9

You need to shut the **** up, you uneducated, ignorant slob. If you are not French then you need to stop thinking you know all about their culture. What has happened, has happened.
They were smart not to rush into war, however the results did not work out as planned.

You remind me of the racist scum you find in the trailer homes of high school dropouts.

Answer 10

The French Foreign Legion is definitely not made up of cowards!

Answer 11

The French are smart not cowards, they din`t send their soldier to be killed in Iraq for a futile war.