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2003-02-19
If this anti-French attitude spreads to far, it is really
going to harm any chance, what little there is, of the US making any progress
towards metrication. Despite the fact that SI is an international system,
to most Americans it is either just a French or European system.
John
Sent: Wednesday, 2003-02-19 08:25
Subject: Fw: hope all is well.... read this one to the
end.....lol >Friends and Colleagues: > > > > > > > > Letter below is GREAT. > > > > > > > > Be sure to read ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM!! > > > > > > > > Dear Dad: > > > > A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp > > > > Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French > > > > army officer walked 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 thing happens, we wouldn't > > > > be able to count on the > > > > support of France. I told him that it didn't > > > > surprise me. Since we had > > > > come to France's rescue in World War I, World War > > > > II, 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 France is a > > > > third-rate military power with a socialist economy > > > > and a bunch of pansies > > > > for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, > > > > being a nation of > > > > deeds and action, not words, would do whatev er 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 belligerent > > > > 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 > > > > Multinational 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, > > > > Mary Beth Johnson > > > > LtCol., USMC |
