| Dear Mom and 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) |
