July 05, 2006
It's a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the United States - on house facades, front lawns, cars and clothes.I feel your pain, Bernard-Henri. The French tri-color is, at best, an uninspired design, but that's not the real problem."It's a little strange, this obsession of the flag," French author Bernard-Henri Levy wrote after traveling across the country.
"Everywhere, in every form, flapping in the wind or on stickers, an epidemic of flags that has spread throughout the city," Levy wrote in "American Vertigo" of the riot of banners he saw.
The real problem is that the tri-color is most familiar to the French (those few who choose to serve it, when outlanders still can be enticed to join the Foreign Legion) as a rallypoint to mark the extent of the latest retreat. Or perhaps on letterhead detailing a special, secret business arrangement with Saddam Hussein.
It seems that the once-great French nation has never truly recovered from the shame of Vichy France and the collaboration epidemic.
Quelle dommage.
Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.
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They are jealous. And have a bad odor. (being outdoors is of no help).
Posted by: haywood jablowmi at July 05, 2006 05:16 PM (6XKXf)
Posted by: greyrooster at July 05, 2006 06:41 PM (NMQrK)
France was never a great nation, because they never advanced the cause of Liberty, human rights, or civilization. Every act the French have ever committed has been out of nothing but greedy self-interest, and they have never been an ally to any other nation for the sake of freedom. France is our oldest enemy, and contiues to be the most odious to this day.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 05, 2006 07:12 PM (v3I+x)
What good is the flag when the principles of liberty which it's supposed to represent are lost? Protect freedom first and let the flag worry about itself.
Posted by: Michael Hampton at July 05, 2006 10:37 PM (FVbj6)
We could change our flag (and actually have before) and still be essentially the same nation we are today.
If we ever change our IDEALS, however, we will NOT be the same nation we are today. We may be the same people, on the same piece of land, and maybe even flying the same flag--but we wouldn't be the same nation.
Posted by: The All-Seeing Eye at July 06, 2006 12:05 AM (fZeeX)
Should spur some emotion once they add the crescent to it though.
Perhaps a variation of this.
Posted by: Mathewk at July 06, 2006 02:12 AM (pVHqF)
None of you have the education to have the first fucking idea what your talking about. Might I suggest your 'great nation' starts teaching some history? Within five minutes of starting to actually *think*, you'll realise quite how retarded this thread it.
Go fuck yourself up the wrong 'un, you ignorant little turds. And clean up the resultant spattering of shit and love-juices with your fucking flag - that's about all it's good for.
Twats.
Posted by: My Argreeable at July 06, 2006 03:47 AM (csS7P)
Man, where's the love?...
None of you have the education to have the first fucking idea what your talking about.
Perhaps not. I do however have the education to have the first fucking idea that your sentence structure is attrocious, and that you meant "you're" and not "your".
Pwned, Froggy!
Posted by: Son Of The Godfather at July 06, 2006 04:18 AM (maXzk)
But I'll give it to you Americans. You really have pride in your own country. I just hope you also see that it has flaws, and you probably have. It's just that much of that does not show through on european television. Here we see just the two opposite poles: At one side we see a bunch of people screaming USA, USA at sports events and on the other side we see Michael Moore.
Posted by: Frankster at July 06, 2006 05:02 AM (KeSyl)
BTW, I think that if there's such a thing as crossing the line My Agreeable, has crossed it. Someone ought to delete his post, etc.
Posted by: Demosophist at July 06, 2006 08:32 AM (Zcruy)
Posted by: greyrooster at July 06, 2006 09:44 AM (NMQrK)
Hey, they gave you that bad-ass statue...
And cheese. They've given the world some wonderful cheese.
Posted by: Bob Holness at July 06, 2006 03:51 PM (+42OI)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 06, 2006 03:55 PM (v3I+x)
Well, this is awkward.
I don't like to apologise, generally, but I was badly out of order.
I don't dislike America. I formally rescind my suggestion that people use the flag for, er, cleaning duties.
The ill-advised tirade above was a product of too little sleep, too much booze, and generic irritation. I was being, not to put too fine a point on it, a cunt.
Not that I agree with this round of Frog-bashing, either. It's getting too easy to paint entire countries with one broad brush-stroke. The French (joe public, not the government) are not bad, horrible, or worthless - if you actually go there, and talk to them, you will find them to be warm, friendly, wonderful people. It annoyed me to see them denigrated in such a shabby manner, and I responded appaulingly.
...and in doing so, I did the same damn thing. I railed at a whole country on the basis of one or two comments.
I am repentent. I don't hate America. All the Americans I've met have showed such generosity of spirit that I'm embarrassed to think that they might ever see what I wrote earlier.
Sorry, people. I was wrong.
Posted by: My Argreeable at July 06, 2006 06:51 PM (+42OI)
Posted by: My Argreeable at July 06, 2006 07:12 PM (+42OI)
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