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2006-10-05 Europe
Row over EU official's Sweden war comments
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Posted by lotp 2006-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Every year, members of the EU parliament pack their shit up (their entire office) and make the move from Brussels to Strasbourg, to spend four (4) days there, and return to Brussels. Oh why not, it's all paid for, it's all good.
Posted by Speart Flerong2904 2006-10-05 00:28||   2006-10-05 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 *snicker* Make mine buttered, please.
Posted by .com 2006-10-05 00:49||   2006-10-05 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Q. How many people does it take to defend Paris?

A. no-one knows, it's never been tried.
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-10-05 06:01||   2006-10-05 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 France: a country whose military heroes are a foreigner and a teenage girl.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-10-05 08:26|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-10-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Q. How many people does it take to defend Paris?

A. no-one knows, it's never been tried.

Except the taxi drivers.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-05 08:32||   2006-10-05 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Strasbourg being the capital of French occupied Germany. Can't let the Hun forget that.
Posted by phil_b 2006-10-05 08:40||   2006-10-05 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 France: a country whose military heroes are a foreigner and a teenage girl

Yeah, tell that to the WWI poilus, to the Dien Bien Phu defenders, or to the algeria war paras...
Prejudice about war proefficiency goes both way : Remember, in Europe, it's the US soldier who's a coward unable to fight without his bottled water, his air support, and all.
That's not true, of course, and so is your view, thanks.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-05 08:45||   2006-10-05 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 France: a country whose military heroes are a foreigner and a teenage girl.

Napoleon was born French. Not sure about if he was French when conceived.

For Jeanne d'Arc. A French girl was more than enough to rout the British.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-10-05 09:21||   2006-10-05 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I have a lot of admiration for the French soldiers. The Free French fought well in North Africa and they fought well in Europe with the allies. I realize they were not very good at working with the allies but give 'em a break. They were in their home country and had their own agenda. They fought well against the Germans at the start, it was the Higher Command Levels who couldn't grasp the way to counter the German tactics. The same can be said of the British. The French and British allocated their tanks, except for one massed tank attack by De Gaulle, in penny pacets to their infantry. They saw the tank as an infantry support weapon and not as an armoured spearhed in the attack or coounter attack.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2006-10-05 09:34||   2006-10-05 09:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Napoleon was Corsican. Does that count as French?

Was Charles Martel French or German? Nice bit of work at the Battle of Tours.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-10-05 11:02||   2006-10-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 While I nothing but contempt for the cowardly French government, let anyone who called the French soldiers cowardly spend a few weeks at Verdun. Or perhaps with Prioux who fought the German Panzers to a standstill (until the line broke elsewhere).
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-10-05 11:14|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-10-05 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Whatever you do, don't mention the war!!!
Posted by Basil Fawlty 2006-10-05 11:54||   2006-10-05 11:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Que?
Posted by Manuel 2006-10-05 15:18||   2006-10-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Charles Martel was born in Aachen. However at battle of Tours most soldiers on the Frank side were, according to Davis Hanson, Gallo Romans or
Francks born in France.

Tactics on the Franck side were definitely Roman-like not Germanic.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-10-05 16:25||   2006-10-05 16:25|| Front Page Top

#15 The French 2nd Army actually did quite well at Sedan in 1940, considering it was regarded as the "weakest link" in their armed forces and got caught by surprise by the elite German spearhead.


http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=battle_sedan
Posted by Ernest Brown">Ernest Brown  2006-10-05 23:15|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]  2006-10-05 23:15|| Front Page Top

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