A letter home
 

A letter home from a marine with the multinational force in Bosnia

Dear Dad,

A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France.

I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface, again, at some point in the near future anyway.

I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.

Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder
85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.

He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.

He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Dad, tell mom I love her,

Your loving daughter

Mary Beth
( last name, Johnson, LtCol, USMC)

You go girl! HOOAH!

Great post, thanks very much!

Trav

Shoot our women are better then them frogs. the bastards are pretty quick to ask for help when there ass' are hanging out to dry

You go girl!

My Older Brother . . . .
 

My older Brother had a similiar conversation with a French tourist. Since Waterloo, France has been a second class nation. Even in WWII when they had the Germans out number 2 - 1 and better equipment they caved in within a couple of weeks. So any criticism from the French should be taken with a grain of salt. I had a retired French freedom fighter in our congregation and spent 3 years in a POW camp. (died about 3 years ago) But came to live in the USA when they started getting socialist. Couldn't handle the down hill spiral of French politics.

Keith

Darrel...
 

Great letter and retort towards a no doubt ignorant and SUPERIOR (in their eyes only) Frenchman,...even though coming from A MARINE. Still, thanks for passing it along.

Neil