So…every bleach blond in Los Angeles is owed a debt of gratitude by everyone currently living in America?

In the words of the local wildlife, “Bummer, dude.”

Also, We English dont like the French… They’re surrender monkeys and have a poor work ethic and we just aint down with that. Plus, as you alluded to above, it was the French that won the American War Of Independence (suck it, America) and we have never really forgiven them for that.

And when the topic of their military incompetence is always raised, I point them to the Battle of Tours in 732, without which probably the Moors would have dominated a larger part of Europe.

Frenchman: so, I failed in my attempt at being objective… damn, I thought being European would have given me an advantage.

France, many Americans claim, should do whatever Washington orders out of gratitude for US ‘saving’ it in two world wars. US TV features angry veterans standing in American military cemeteries in Normandy, denouncing France for ‘stabbing America in the back’ - as if invading Iraq to grab its oil and crushing Israel’s enemies had anything to do with World War II. I happen to be a US Army vet and member of the American Legion who thinks France is doing exactly the right thing.

Few flag-waving pundits mention America sat out almost 40% of WWII until attacked by Japan. In 1940, the German armed forces were the equivalent of the US armed forces today - a full military generation ahead of all other nations. France’s entire army was destroyed in battle by the invincible Germans; had the US fought Germany in 1940, it too would have been routed. The Soviet Union, not the US, defeated Germany, destroying over 100 Nazi divisions.