Well, got one word for ya - actually two:
Algeria.
Vietnam.
(Add that second one to Our list BTW)
They, with ALL of Europe - failed utterly to simply read Mein Kampff, notice the timetable as it checked off - and remove heads from Murican-style fantasyland. Guilty. Accordingly had to bear goose-stepping Nazis at the Arc de Triomphe.
Had their Vichy as Norway its Quisling - but also their share of heroic underground folk. 'Course all of 20th century history can't be done with slogans, even among the illuminati, a comfy 5000 miles away.
Still, with both the above egregious national experiences of past 50 years; lots of heaped dead burned bodies: now with Dubya! putatively organizing the most subtle of all the intricate details across a huge Unknown (OR just maybe.. if some of those details are gotten wrong or too hurried: coalescing the Jihad to end All Jihads, from "next door" ??)
What would *you* do as President of Republique? (with French population, GNP - not Murican one)
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