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ANDY ROONEY ON FRANCE
"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago. They may (?) even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business.
The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good
people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as
international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right
thing.
The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting
their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.
You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist
attraction, but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't
want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German
occupation.
I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the
D-day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.
Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do
not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the UN
I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25,
1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world.
French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.
When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde, and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place you'll never know."
The French, a third-rate power with a third-rate track record since the end of WWI, have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to
attack Iraq. "
"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago. They may (?) even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business.
The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good
people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as
international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right
thing.
The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting
their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.
You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist
attraction, but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't
want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German
occupation.
I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the
D-day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.
Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do
not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the UN
I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25,
1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world.
French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.
When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde, and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place you'll never know."
The French, a third-rate power with a third-rate track record since the end of WWI, have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to
attack Iraq. "
