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"HeyBub" wrote:

harry wrote:

There is a reason for this. (Though I agree the French are a
scurrilous race)
Since WW2 the USA has become the bully of the world. Meddling and
intervening purely to suit it's economic pursuits.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

It's what countries do. Been going on for millennia.

Heck, there was even a time when American colonists couldn't even make a
shovel (so doing would compete with British foundries)! And don't get me
started about the British East India Company.

PJ has pretty much scoped out the French:
A moral compass needs a butt end. Whatever direction France is
pointing--from collaboration with the Nazis, acccomodation with the
Communists, existentialism, Jerry Lewis or a UN resolution veto-- we can
go the other waywith a quiet conscience.

--PJ O'Rourke

--
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist