They used to be our big friend until they started becoming wussies.
2006-08-31 14:31:41 · 12 answers · asked by Ah Ha 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They even gave us the statue of liberty.
2006-08-31 14:33:38 · update #1
the french are socialists, same as the liberals. of course their wussies
2006-08-31 14:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by onefatwhiteguy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A traitor is a citizen who acts against the interests of his/her country.
the French are not Americans, therefore they can not be traitors.
The French have more in common with America than you seem to realize.
Just because your brother does not do what you want, it doesn't make him a traitor. It makes him independent minded.
For example, France passed a law outlawing the wearing of religious head dresses.
That is a far more telling action than the low level prejudice that America has for certain Middle East cultures.
Pretend you are France for a moment. you want certain things, but the US and certain other countries are bigger with more money. What do you do?
You play smarter. You be everyone's friend, you pretend not to like America and suck up enough to third world idiots to sell them your crap.
Don't be jealous of France for being smarter. But don't ever forget that they are the political masters of Planet Earth.
Why do you think words like espionage, protocol, government, sabotage, subterfuge, discerning, duplicity, rapproachment, diligence, are all French words?
Why do you think they run the EU when they are not even the richest country in Europe?
Because they are cunning and ruthless and opportunistic.
They invented most of the modern political and military concepts and others merely ape their successes.
Bottom line, the French will always be friends of the US against the big enemies, and always a pain in the butt as competitors.
2006-08-31 22:43:53 · answer #2 · answered by aka DarthDad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~Traitor to whom or to what. When a free and indepent nation elects to follow a rational path and not join in an illegal and unjustified invasion of another free and independent nation at the risk of economic and other reprisals by the invaders, I think the more appropriate adjectives would be "sane" or "heroic".
France has been leery of US domination since the US refused to aid the French in their revolution and since the US left them out to dry in two world wars, steeping in only when allied victory was assured and US post-war economic and political supremacy was guaranteed. There is a reason the US is not well loved around the world. Your question and your attitude is part of that reason.
2006-08-31 21:52:16 · answer #3 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately they didn't give you a higher IQ and you forget France isn't exactly liberal. They restrict religious freedoms of expression. So they aren't exactly traitors when they follow America in restriction of liberty.
2006-08-31 22:00:20 · answer #4 · answered by Egroeg_Rorepme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this case France stayed out of something while we America spend billions of dollars for nothing. I'm not a big fan of France, but I am one for using your brain and making the right decisions.
2006-08-31 21:54:35 · answer #5 · answered by Mystery D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pompous Americans who were born yesterday have the audacity to make such bold remarks?
2006-08-31 22:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by BT 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the French would say "Nous combattant d'amoureux pas"
"We lover not fighter" lol
2006-08-31 21:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a way yes and in another way , yellow bellied sapsuckers and that is a polite way of saying it!!!
2006-08-31 21:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
by their latest actions i say yes! Seems a bit suspect that they would turn their back on us! Maybe the fight on terrorism hits close to home for them
2006-08-31 21:45:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
YOU APPARENTLY DO NOT EVEN KNOW THE DEFINITION TO THE WORD 'TRAITOR' OR YOU WOULDN'T BE ASKING SUCH AN IGNORANT QUESTION.
HOW CAN PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT EVEN CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY BE TRAITORS TO THIS COUNTRY?
2006-08-31 21:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋