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Entry: Vive La France! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/vive_la_france1#813 Post contents: Few things make me more ashamed to be an American (though, as an unreconstructed Tory who admires George III and despises George Bush, I suppose it's not hard) than crude neocon Americanist Francophobia as expressed by the above "jokes." Those who laugh about French "cowardice" evidently have no idea that 1,397,800 Frenchmen died in World War I--second only to Russia among the Allies, or that as Michael pointed out above, there would have BEEN no USA in the first place without the French navy. Alas, Louis XVI's reluctant decision to aid the American revolutionaries, which bankrupted the French treasury and therefore precipiated the crisis of 1789, was the worst mistake he ever made, and in my opinion the only sense in which he can be blamed for the monstrous French Revolution. I enjoyed Taki's article as always, but he omits that the French Republic was built on the blood of Their Most Christian Majesties Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette. There is plenty for which to denounce the French, but denounce them for the murder of their King and Queen and the continuing deification of their diabolical Revolution, not for imaginary "cowardice" or reasonable opposition to Bush's absurd and immoral Iraq adventure. Sent at: 2008 07 24