http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty It seems that America is having special relations with France now instead of the British over this red line business in Syria, that the Secretary of State has mentioned them our oldest ally. This reminds me of the Statue of Liberty, perhaps is supposed to because it's meaningful to libertarian ideals. I'm thinking, I'd like to tell a joke, maybe French Fries should not longer be called Freedom Fries, but French Fried Freedoms, but that is a crappy joke, downright embarrassing. But, that goes to show you how well informed I am of whatever's happening in the middle east. I just assume that when they say "no boots on the ground", the word "no" is an acronym meaning "number of", because they keep getting roped into the civil wars over there. I wonder, is this great turning point in history, or is it all just hype?
Historically, France has voted with and supported the U.S. more often than Britain has, in some periods more than others. France just likes to pretend to be more 'independent', even when it isn't. I don't know if they are our oldest ally, I would think the Dutch were, but it's a matter of opinion; the Dutch were the first to recognize the U.S. as a country, while France was busy playing strategic games against its historical rival Britain; I wouldn't consider either of them to be 'allies' until well into the19th century. We were just one more pawn in the Great Game.
It's pretty obvious; the U.S. isn't bashful about exerting military and economic power against terrorist vermin, and France is getting fed up with pandering to terrorists and de-evolved medieval savagery, both internally and on its borders, while the rest of Europe sucks Putin's ass and sit on their hands and let others resolve their historical screw ups. Then they will come along later and tell us what we all did wrong, and act as if we should care what they think and what size of cut they want out of the results.
I was watching a programme about Syria where a man was annoyed to see that France was following USA, he was saying that our country had make a succed to became US' new "poodle" and that we where now worste than British for that - he had been criticze by an other man who just make him remembered that US freed us twice - I don't understand why, but people here in France tend to think that they should never be agree with USA, it's badely see to be agree with, people act as it we should never follows them... Then, our countries are very similar in a lot of point and wery linked because of their history - people here in France love US for the enormous majority, almost young people, and I think that it's a good thing. France and US are agree in a lot of point, and that's a great thing! The fact that Frace follows US was great for Syria - the only one problem is that François Hollande, our stupid president, does it without think only one minute - he's stupid, that's all.
