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To: Bilow who wrote (52931)	10/18/2002 6:13:22 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) of 281500

How about "France lost the will to fight Germany" after WWI? That would explain its lack of preparation, its willingness to ignore Nazi remilitarization, etc. Sure, Germany is a bigger, more powerful country than France - but it had been before WWI, and it took an enormous cost in lives and $$ for France to fight back. It wasn't up to doing it again. Since Germany was neutralized France has only fought in limited wars that didn't have nearly the impact of WWI or WWII in lives lost or $$, and been protected by NATO ( I don't count De Gaulle's "force de frappe" :-/) France, in fact, is negligible in world military affairs and would probably be ignored on that issue if it didn't have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

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