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forwarded from my "Ex-Marine" Father in law.. thought it was appropriate to share on this thread... Evil Chris should come tell us his alternate plan of diplomacy... ;-))
> > 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
> > whatever 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 Multi-National 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
by GregX
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