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An actual letter from home from a marine with the multinational force in
>Bosnia:
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>
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>Dear Dad,
>
>A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
>
>A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
>(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in
>Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the
>support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come
>to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War,
>their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in
>the near future anyway. I also told him that is why France is a third-rate
>military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of pansies for
>soldiers.
>
>I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action,
>not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever
>came, was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US
>would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as
>evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American
>PX, and not the other way around.
>
>He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like
>to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass
>in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that
>even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average
>Frenchman.
>
>He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends
>like these, who needs enemies?
>
>Dad, tell Mom I love her,
>
>
>Your loving daughter,
>
>Mary Beth Johnson, LtCol., USMC
>Bosnia:
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>
>
>Dear Dad,
>
>A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
>
>A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
>(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in
>Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the
>support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come
>to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War,
>their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in
>the near future anyway. I also told him that is why France is a third-rate
>military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of pansies for
>soldiers.
>
>I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action,
>not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever
>came, was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US
>would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as
>evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American
>PX, and not the other way around.
>
>He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like
>to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass
>in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that
>even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average
>Frenchman.
>
>He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends
>like these, who needs enemies?
>
>Dad, tell Mom I love her,
>
>
>Your loving daughter,
>
>Mary Beth Johnson, LtCol., USMC
