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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
I was being facetious in the OP. I was in the South of France for two weeks back in the '80s. Cannes, Nice and Toulon. Even Toulon wasn't bad, if you didn't behave like a jackass. Cannes and Nice were beautiful.
The dislike of the French most recently, I believe, was fomented by our own government over instances when we found ourselves at odds with them. Over the Iraq war, etc. Rightwingers fall for it more readily because...........well, they always seem to need foreigners to loathe.
I was once told that the French were why we "...ended up in Vietnam. To take care of something they were too weak to finish."
Ummmmm....... We never "finished" Vietnam, either. 
Dave |
Probably because both militaries tried to fight a conventional war against an enemy that was anything but conventional.