Baisez les Français

Yeah, that's right. "Fuck the French"

And make no mistake, I am referring to the government....not the entire population.

The problem here is that France, always wanting to be a leader on the world stage completely blew it. I guess this opportunity did not entirely suit them.

From Reuters

Trying to bolster a five-day-old truce, Lebanese troops moved deeper into south Lebanon a day after France dealt a blow to hopes of building a strong U.N. force to help the army take control of the region as Israeli troops withdraw.

The United Nations said it had received substantial offers of troops for Lebanon, but was disappointed that France was only offering to send 200 additional soldiers.

PAINFUL EXPERIENCE

France's reticence to contribute more troops follows disastrous peacekeeping missions in the past. It lost 58 paratroopers to a Shi'ite suicide bomb attack in Beirut in 1983 and some 84 soldiers in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

"I'd like to remind you of the experience of painful operations where U.N. forces did not have a sufficiently precise mission or the means to react," French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told RTL radio.

Ummmm, I don't think my eyes will tear up for you any time soon. I guess if there is ever a UN call for peacekeeping troops to Marseille, Lyons or Monaco the French will sit straight in their chairs and triumphantly voice a collective "Oui". I guess then and only then will it be totally safe for them. Is all their activity on the world stage just posturing???

Remember it is not a world war unless France surrenders.

Viva La France!!!