Reply #9: A country that we need to embrace more [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

Do I embrace their government and Jacques Chirac as brave and heroic for not getting involved with Iraq, not really. It was a smart move and one of national interest on many levels, amongst them, that they saw the situation would probably become a quagmire and that commiting troops would be just putting them in harm's way for no reason. But basically, there's no reason that we need to hate the French or any Europeans for that matter. Not to mention the fact that our freeper counterparts forget that citizens of a country don't necesarilly agree with the decissions of their government. I actually discussed this with my french teacher a few years ago. Somebody made an "anti-french" comment in class. I responded that, "You may disagree with the decissions of their government, but the actions of their government don't necesarilly reflect the beliefs of all of their people." After class I discussed it with my teacher, and told her that if I went to France, I would sure hope that they don't assume that I, as well as all other Americans are Bush supporters, because that is clearly not hte case.