Even the French......

[Mark Bennett]

One might also observe that the U.S. armed forces pulled a pretty good fold
job themselves in early 1942 against the Japanese.  I don't suspect The
Weekly Standard will be dredging that up any time soon . . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pollak [mailto:mpollak at panix.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:59 PM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Even the French......

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, the conservative Weekly Standard was quoted:

   Still not convinced? Consider the greatest military collapse of modern

   times, the infamous French fold at the start of World War II. Germany

   invaded France on May 10, 1940, didn't get to Paris until June 14

I suppose it would be gauche to point out that in those 6 weeks, the French
lost 124,000 dead and 200,000 wounded -- more than the US lost in Korea and
Vietnam combined.  But somehow conservatives think our defeat in Vietnam was
brave and what the French did was cowardly.  It beggars belief.

Michael