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Skriven 2006-03-26 18:13:22 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 26588 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
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24 Mar 06 08:57, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 FS>>   That's one reason why they hate America so.  Actually I feel very
 FS>> sorry for them and express it by instructing them in simple ways --
 FS>> ways they might be capable of understanding ... so far I've not been
 FS>> very successful ... [sigh] ...

 RW>> That's because they're so dense, it will take them a decade or more
 RW>> to figure it out.

 FS>> I started out by suggesting they might show a little gratitude
 FS>> for the many things the US has done for them during the past
 FS>> century.  This puzzles them, and we're off on the wrong foot.
 FS>> They seem not to study history hence aren't aware of the great
 FS>> debt they owe us ... sad ... but one moves on ...

 RW>> I see that you've raised the ire of a 'frog' with this comment.
 RW>> Let's just say that, given 230 years of history, the frogs owe us a
 RW>> great deal more grattitude than we owe them.

 FS> True, a Frog (and I prefer the more polite capitalized 'F' since
 FS> the Frogs *are* a type of human being -- I think)

News to me.

 FS>  has responded. He apparently doesn't know much about french history
 FS> ... uh French history.

If he did, he'd know that the Frogs haven't ever won a war by
themselves...

 FS> First things first:  They "helped" us during the American
 FS> Revolution for one reason only -- to harm the British. The French
 FS> and British had been at war on-and-off for *centuries* by then.

They sorta won the Hundred Year's War, but famine and desease beat them
and they lost part of France to; guess who!

 FS> The French figured even though the British colonists couldn't
 FS> help them (the Frogs) much, they *could* bother the British a
 FS> bit.  With this in mind they "helped" us.

Sure.

 FS> Second:  The Frogs who helped us were under the command of a
 FS> *Monarchist*.  The French threw out the Monarchists in an
 FS> excessively blood revolution shortly after our own humane
 FS> revolution.  Hence if we owed anyone (and we *don't*) it would be
 FS> to the French Monarchy, not to the Fourth Reich or whatever the
 FS> current Frog gummint calls itself.

I think an Emporer was in-between there someplace. Nepolian comes to
mind.

 FS> I hope this clarifies the situation -- and all without hurting
 FS> the delicate feelings of any Frogs.

They have feelings too?


Roy
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