It is the culture of political correctness that makes the French look bad to us. Soldiers, in general and regardless of nationality, are politically incorrect. For over 170 years the French army has been handicapped by excessive political intervention. The Legion etrangere had less of such political intervention. "Political officers" in that unit suffered a higher KIA percentage than in the French Army. They were also on the sharp end a lot more often than thier regular army counterparts.
>Does the French military really need the "current political leadership >to make them look bad". I thought they did that well enough on their own. > >ref: Why do the French line Paris with Trees? > >Russel Madere wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228121 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
