The French are magnificent in their way, but you have to know what you are dealing with, and I have always thought that you should be a cat-admirer to appreciate them, as they are feline in their elegance, cunning, and total self-absorption. But as allies, unless your interests are exactly aligned, as in World War I, they are hopeless and usually treacherous.
10 February 2011
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Jail-bird Conrad Black in NRO on the subject of The One's pronouncement that France was the USA's closest ally:
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A liability in time of war,
ReplyDeleteA pain in the time of peace.
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." — General George S. Patton
ReplyDelete"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." — General Norman Schwartzkopf