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Politics : World Affairs Discussion
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3023)12/21/2003 10:19:14 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 3959
 
As a child, I learned in American history books that the US’s oldest ally is France, the source from which the ideals of the US Constitution sprang. It always seemed to me that what was best in American government was essentially French.

ROTFLMAO!!! The French regime of Louis the XVI was hardly interested in giving birth to the concept of democracy... They figured it was a brilliant way for France to undermine Great Britain and separate 13 of her colonies from the control of the English..

It was a power play, pure and simple.

So since the US was not a Monarchy, and especially not one that was destined for its only bloody downfall not many years later, I'd say it's quite a stretch to claim "the best of American Government" is French..

If anything, the French people took note of the Americans and figured "if they could do it there, why not here?"..

Sure Rousseau and Voltaire were important, but so was Locke and Hobbes, as well as Adam Smith.

But what I can suggest is to determine who's more obligated to whom, one only has to count the number of soldier's graves located on the soil of the other's nation.

I don't know of too many cemetaries dedicated to French soldiers making the ultimate sacrifice to protect the US.

Hawk
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