GOP Nation is forgetting The FRENCH came just in time to HELP us win FREEDOM from England

[opihimoimoi]

France and the USA have been allies since...So whats wrong w helping others get Their Freedoms???


Currently....The GOPers are Negging this whole atmosphere with negativity and pessimism...and locker room opinions....

They are divisive and hateful....they play beyond rough...but they are of Bad Taste....esp if REASON was in their quiver..



We are so lucky we have our Freedoms...to think, to solve, and to complain....and to denigrate....

The Social Evolution is ongoing with Negativity on one side and Positivity on the other...what Force will prevail???

[rfranklin]

1. Without the French there probably would not be a U.S.A....

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse. The battle was tactically inconclusive but strategically a major defeat for the British, since it prevented the Royal Navy from reinforcing or evacuating the blockaded forces of General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. It also prevented British interference with the transport of French and Continental Army troops and provisions to Yorktown via Chesapeake Bay. As a result, Cornwallis surrendered his army after the Siege of Yorktown. The major consequence of Cornwallis's surrender was the beginning of negotiations that eventually resulted in peace and British recognition of the independent United States of America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake

The French Navy stood up to a far superior British Fleet and backed them off.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Thanks for the post....We were grateful enough to send our dough boys and Troops in WW1 and WW2

[pipoman]

10. And, of coarse,

the same can be said of France for the massive US loss of life and limb in defense of French sovereignty.

[eShirl]

2. That's because they pick and choose what to remember from our nation's history

pick'n'choose "patriots"

[opihimoimoi]

5. They do that with the Holy Book too...pick and choose quotes

[rfranklin]

8. Its mostly the Old Testament (angry father God) versus New Testament (loving God)

They like the smiting and stoning.

[GoCubsGo]

12. They like to have it both ways.

Out of one side of their mouth, they preach that "God loves you unconditionally." Out of the other, it's all smiting and stoning and "God hates fags/whores/unbelievers/whoever else we hate." So, if God loves us "unconditionally", why is there a Hell?

[opihimoimoi]

21. Contradictory but adhered to...what a way to deal with the mess.

[liberal N proud]

4. The GOP does not care about history except to erase that which

they do not like and to enhance that which makes their leaders look better.

The words: "Those who do not study history are damned to repeat it" mean nothing to the GOP.

[opihimoimoi]

6. That means they are History Repeaters.... possess COMMON DENSITY

[old mark]

7. We would not be an independent nation if it had not been for French

intervention on our behalf in the Revolution.

mark

[opihimoimoi]

9. Yup...still be upstanding for GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at every event

[old mark]

26. Of course, we WOULD have government health care....

How bad can that queen really be?


mark

[opihimoimoi]

27. Ya Got ME...LOL....(Embarrassed)

:toast: mud in your eye

[pipoman]

11. So long as the price the US has paid

in defense of French freedom isn't forgotten either...that price was a hefty one..

[Recursion]

17. The Bourbons paid for helping us with their heads

The cost of the Revolutionary War to France was their monarchy, ultimately.

[Canuckistanian]

13. All that happened more than one election cycle ago

The GOP have no direct memories of what happened before that. They're the "short attention span" party.

[opihimoimoi]

20. ADD?? Yup...selective memory

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. America was born of a Virgin, didn't you know that?

[Recursion]

15. At the risk of quoting W, don't forget Poland (nt)

[Recursion]

16. Although, in fairness, the cost associated with that toppled the French regime a few years later

Just sayin'

[JVS]

18. This was a bad strategic move for the Louis XVI.

While the democratic ideals of the young US and their revolution looked like a good idea for him to support when it was England's ox being gored, the tide had turned when his own people did the same and put his head on the block.

[opihimoimoi]

19. Louie forget his people...all the wealth was divided among the rich, powerful

Commoners were left with a pittance...economic slaves

the general rule calls for a happy population...else...uprisings

[randr]

22. Today's GOP would have been on the side of the British

[TheKentuckian]

23. Only the "moderates"

The radical regressives would be crying for the Vatican to rule the world.

[bhikkhu]

24. The Battle of the Chesapeake is worth keeping in mind

...where the French navy outwitted and outmaneuvered the British navy, preventing reinforcements and relief for Cornwallis and leading directly to surrender negotiations. I always like to bring it up when people start in with the "new glass-bottomed french navy" joke.

[opihimoimoi]

28. Americas Lifeline in the nick of time

[DavidDvorkin]

25. Yeah, if not for those damned French, we'd all have universal health care now!

[opihimoimoi]

29. We can eventually learn of the benefits in due time....Fear rules the Land ....we must subdue FEAR

factor in the Land...bring about Positivity and courage to say it, and we will have a chance

[Keith Bee]

30. SOLID Kick

Fuck the France-bashers!