How more slaps in the face should the U.S. take from them before they we no longer consider them an ally?
2006-08-20 09:44:29 · 18 answers · asked by Speaking_Up 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I have no use for them. If we could get ourselves out of the UN, it'd be an easy way to keep them from sucking our teats.
I especially like how they come up with the ceasefire, then provide civil engineers, rather than troops, to get into the rebuilding contracts.
2006-08-20 10:00:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chickenhawk couch potatoes who giggle at how France got pushed back by the Nazi blitzkrieg forget that America didn't even show up for that. We weren't there for them in 1914 either, or in Vietnam when the Communists still could have been defeated in 1950. We didn't help them in Algeria in 1960 either--that was the first victory of the modern Holy War.
To the French, G.I. Joe has always been Johnny Come Lately.
2006-08-20 17:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The true questions is : do you have allies anymore ?
Even Blair begins to turn back to you, so are you sure that France is the issue ?
What have you done with your allies for being alone in the world as you are now ?
2006-08-20 17:02:51 · answer #3 · answered by Agathe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friends can have disagreements. The US should not try to bully all the other countries in the world into agreeing with every position it takes - especially the wrongful ones. We need to work WITH other countries to develop reasonable and enduring ties and foreign policies. What this administration has done is ridiculous and harmful for the entire world.
France is and will continue to be a strong ally. We will have to earn back their trust, and the trust of most of the world.
2006-08-20 16:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's really not a slap to the US that they've bailed on the Ceasefire agreement. It's really a slap to themselves. After all they're the ones that negotiated the terms they now can't live with. Apparently, the French have now resorted to slapping themselves in the face.
2006-08-20 16:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are what is best for them at the time. Not an ally though. So I would say an undecided. Until it works in their favor, their not a foe. But they are only a friend when it is convenient and good for them. I say in the future we let them bail their own butts out. Its not like it does us any good.
2006-08-20 16:51:52 · answer #6 · answered by A* 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are our ally....so to speak. However, they will not take a cue from the USA and celebrate any kind of independence for their own country. Because when the fireworks go off...they all surrender.
2006-08-20 17:17:44 · answer #7 · answered by duke1414 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
France is a prickly friend which will say no just because ten people have said yes. then they'll say yes just because ten people have decided to say no. sometimes they're right (think back to Iraq), sometimes it'd be nice to shove something right up their pretentious asses...
it's called "l'exception francaise" and it's enough to drive anybody nuts. but when push comes to shove they are on the US side.
2006-08-20 19:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by yb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friend. I work with the French and spend a considerable amount of time in France. The fact that the French refuse to get involved in America's Gung-ho attitude to War-mongering endears them further to me.
2006-08-20 17:02:00 · answer #9 · answered by Kitty 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd prefer to just disregard them all together and next time they require our assistance for survival (WWII) we should just tell them "tough sh*t, your on your own but we wont, we never have and never will. The USA does more for the world than anybody. That is why we are the worlds superpower. Like it or not, that's just how it is.
2006-08-20 16:54:57 · answer #10 · answered by Jeremy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋