Paris Liberated!
Ah, the summer of 1944. I remember it well. The French countryside was alive with the sounds of birds and turning coats. Flowering baskets and collaborators hung from every lamp post. And a beautiful young woman named Lilli Marlene bade a tearful farewell to her beloved Otto, and prepared to welcome her beloved Hank, just as her mother had a generation before.
I wrote that two years ago, to mark this occasion, the anniversary of the Liberation of Paris. The French have spun a myth over the generations of how General LeClerc and the forces of Free France entered the city in triumph. The facts are somewhat different and show that the French owe that event to the Fourth Infantry Division of the United States Army and to the Spanish expats of the French Second Armored Division.
When commanded by officers with skills and backbone, the French soldier can fight as well as any. They are demonstrating that in Afghanistan today. In the Second World War, that type of officer was less prevalent and far too many French soldiers died because of it. The Resistance, equally covered with myths, spent as much time fighting among its various political flavors as it did fighting the Boche.
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You know? There’s just something about the french that you have to admire. I haven’t quite figured out what it is but I know that nature hates a vacuum and there’s just gotta’ be something. Maybe when they all convert to Islam things won’t be so difficult. Maybe then, whatever it is will jump right out into view; you know, that “jen-a’-say’-quah” stuff. These poor people haven’t had a decent government in hundreds of thousands of years. That takes some doing. How Julius Caesar ever beat the Gauls I just can’t understand; unless they were so busy fighting among themselves to notice Ol’ Julius. Think that’s what done it? No! Me neither! I guess even if they “convert” to Islam (that is: when the ones who decide they want to live “convert”), they’ll never be “True Believers”. Look at the way they behaved when they said they were Christians. Just terrible! Terrible! I’ve been to Paris, I know what of I speak! Terrible! Terrible!
PS: Do you think that the Muslims in france are bright enough to realize the same thing about the poor french? Do you think they’re just going to not even bother “converting” the french? Do you think the Muslims will stack their skulls as high as the Eiffel Tower? You know, I’m a lot of things, but I don’t think I have much french in me. Mon Dieu! Merci beau coup!