Dear Dad, A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bendsteel Bosnia): A French army officer waked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thinkg happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't suprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface again, at some point in the near future anyway... I also told him that is why Frnce is a third-rate military power with a Socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway. Just like in all NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around. He began to get beligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Dad, tell mom I love her, Your loving daughter Lt. Col. Mary Beth Johnson, USMC
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>...Just like in all NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And use 85% of the body bags.
That would be very good, if for 3 things. 1 - it wasn't made up 2 - france hadn't left vietnam 20 years before the americans went in 3 - america hadn't lost the vietnam war apart from that, very true.
Yeah brilliant ... Our girls can beat the shit out of your guys, therefore we're right and you're wrong. It's impeccable logic like this that has the world teetering on the brink in the first place.
why do the american's always think they came to the resuce in world war 1 and 2, they were late to both and other than than one of the biggest attrocities in mankinds history get off calling themselves heroes, fix the inside of your own country first before trying to take over the world and impose your brand justice on the rest of the world. "knowledge is man's truest power, but ignorance is much more dangerous, as it masquarade's as knowledge"