A letter home from a marine

[MORTARDUDE]

> Be sure to read the whole letter you will get such a kick of how it ends.
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>
> 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 x#)$*@s 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
>
> Lt. Col. Mary Beth Johnson USMC