It's pretty much in the "Kill 'em all, let Allah sort 'em out" category, so if you're a sensitive little Mary who wishes to not be offended while you're being blown into kibble-sized bits of political correctness, I'd give it a miss. If, on the other hand, you're getting as pissed at the whole situation as I am, it sounds like Words From The Mountain.
What can I say, I react badly to people trying to kill me and take away my entire way of life while mealy-mouthed scumbag liberals pontificate on how it's all my fault.
In any event, read up. It's pretty much what I was gonna say anyhow.
Now, while researching the net for my original posting, I again and again and again ran across the Fucking French ("FF", for those into acronyms). And one of the things I found was this old WWI poster:
When I saw it, I was overwhelmed with sadness. I just sat there for several minutes contemplating it, and its caption:
"Whither thou goest I will go: where thou diest I will die -- the Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me.
Dedicated to France and sold for the Benefit of her Fatherless Children".
Jesus. No wonder everyone shits on us. We actually BELIEVED that stuff. Are we a bunch of gullible assholes, or what? We're the big ol' good natured kid that everyone picks on and takes advantage of because we'll always forgive, always give another drop of our blood to try to help out. Even in the last month, when that sack of monkey-droppings Chirac stood in the American graveyard at Normandy on the anniversary of the invasion of Europe, and yammered on in that foul gutter language they're so proud of about the brave French and how big a part they were of pushing the Germans out, everyone nodded sagely and remembered the heroic Resistance.
Well, it's all bullshit. The French should more correctly be remembered as a nation of collaborators whose main contribution to liberating THEIR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY was pointing out where the Jews were hiding for the French Police. What, not the Gestapo? Silly boy, whose history have you been reading? Over 75,000 Jews were "relocated" out of France (and most didn't come back), virtually ALL of them arrested and turned over to the Germans by the French Police without ANY apparent prodding by the Krauts.
In other words, they did it on their own. The Nazis, in fact, were pretty surprised about this, as they expected the collaborationist Vichy government to protect the Jews at least as well as the Italians did. In short, other than cleaning out entire Jewish neighborhoods (presently occupied by Arabs,) the French made about as much contribution to the war in Europe as the Inuit Eskimos did.
But what of La RĂ©sistance? You know, those brave warriors in the shadows, "Casablanca" and all that? Well, again the word "BULLSHIT" is of use. In a nation of 40,000,000, less than 40,000 were sufficiently outraged to do anything that even remotely approached even TOKEN resistance. Curiously enough, this number swelled to about 1/2 million as the Allies rolled into Paris. Then EVERYONE was waving a rusty old rifle around and shaving the heads of their women for fucking German soldiers, even though practically everyone in the entire nation was making sure them whacky ol' Germans felt right at home up to the day that we drove them out.
André Malraux, the great "anti-fascist" of the prewar years, heroically gathered up his pantaloons and took a moral vacation, presumably finding some other cause to while away the time until mid-1944 when it was clear the tide had turned, at which point he resumed his brave stance.
In fact, Jean-Paul Sartre came with Simone de Bouvoir to see Malraux in the early '40s about getting some kind of resistance going, but gave up on the idea when Malraux advised that there was no point in doing anything before an Allied invasion.
Sartre DID write a play ("Les Mouches") that he later claimed to be an act of resistance but which aroused nobody and, embarassingly enough even by French standards, was completely and utterly ignored by the Germans, otherwise noted for their vigorous response to criticism. In fact, his major contribution was to became the great anti-fascist AFTER the war -- with the United States as target.
In short, we've been had. And had royally, I might add. And worse, it's our own fault.
Y'see the problem was that even in a conflict as clean-cut as WW2, we had to figure out a way to engage the American public in order to do what needed to be done. The fact of the matter is that we needed to destroy Nazism, as it was going to destroy us if we didn't. For some reason, that wasn't enough to convince your average American, who's "live and let live" isolationist life foundations are not necessarily a good philosophy to have when someone's got a pistol to your head. However, the one thing that we'll always respond to is a plucky little underdog.
So, our propaganda machinery wound up and, converted the French from their true incarnation (maggots infesting the sloughing, rotting shell of their dying "civilization") into spunky little heroines, bravely facing up to the evil rapist Germans, all in order to convince Joe On The Street that we needed to do what needed to be done.
Money in the bank, buddy.
Brave Americans who would otherwise have stayed home went and bled and died to rescue poor France and the rest of Europe, thus fulfilling the actual goal -- killing Hitler and the Nazis.
It was necessary.
Now, however, we're hoist by our own petard, so to speak. The heroic little French girl has revealed herself over the last 50 years to in fact be a perverted, bitter, dangerous old man whose main joy is pissing on his betters to make up for his long-past "glory". But we've so brainwashed our own public that we can't see past that image WE created of the heroic Frenchman, and as a result, with each new assault they make on us, we reel like a man on a picnic being mugged in a meadow. And every time they dig their toe in the sand and try to make nice, instead of kicking the dogshit out of them, as should be done, WE FORGIVE THEM AGAIN.
God, we are pretty stupid after all.
(This, incidentally, is also why we are so pissed at the French, but don't really give a shit about the Krauts or the Russkies. Our internal propaganda never really made more than a token effort to convince us in more than a half-assed way that they were anything more lovable than homicidal, totalitarian Eurotrash scumbags whom we have to kick the puppy-shit out of every 30-50 years anyhow, and we've damned sure never had to rescue them from anyone. No one was really all that surprised when they turned up on the "other" side. ["What, the Lands Of The Gulag and Concentration Camps are against American interests?" we asked. "Oh, dear. Wait, let us pull out our 'shocked and surprised' face."])
Well, for my money, I think it's fairly likely that the Muslims are going to win the current war. I'm figuring about 50/50 odds. We can't get our heads and hearts engaged in it because your average middle-eastern scumbag is totally beyond our power or propaganda to rehabilitate into a sympathetic character.
We rescued a bunch of Iraqis. Last estimates were that Sadaam was killing about 150 Arabs per day, and making refugees of another 400+, so thus far we've saved about 1/4 - 1/2 million from death or life as a refugee. Big fucking deal.
Muslims have been flooding into Iraq to do battle over that ugly, reeking sandbox, resulting in us killing THOUSANDS of them, instead of them coming here and making us do it in downtown Chicago or LA -- rather a tactical victory, however you count it. Big fucking deal.
There's going to be democracy in the Middle East. Bullshit, but even if so, big fucking deal.
Why "Big Fucking Deal?" Try this: Go out and ask about 1000 of your neighbors whether they give a rat's testicle which wad of raghaids wind up running Iraq or Jordan or Iran or Saudi, or whether Arabs killing negros in Darfur, or Jihadists pillaging the Phillipines and Indonesia is of more than remotely passing interest.
Try to point out that there is not ONE SINGLE MAJOR HOTSPOT in the entire world on any continent where a hot war is in progress that the Muslims have not initiated and are presently engaged in it. Their eyes will glaze over, and they may murmur "Oh, that's interesting."
Y'see, the problem with the Muslims is the same as it was with the Nazis: If we don't kill them, they are going to kill us, and at the end of the day, that's only important thing. But this time, we have no one to rescue but ourselves nothing to fight for but our own survival and self-interest --- and we've always pretty much sucked at that.
As one who is a big believer in karma, revenge, or whatever you want to call it, I pray with all my heart that if the last light of our civilization flickers out and we enter the new Dark Age of a 7th Century Muslim caliphate, our last dying spasm kills France.
Rewrote the poster a bit:
In Our Next Episode: Maybe some more on the little-boy-fucker. It distresses him if I don't check in once in awhile and we can't have that.
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