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Flaying the Frogs has replaced baseball as the national pastime in this here great country, with Murdoch’s minions doing most of the flaying, using elegant words such as weasels, yellow-bellies and slimeballs to describe our Gallic cousins. It is strange how Marianne’s reluctance to join Hopalong Cassidy for target practice against a bunch of schmucks using Winchester 73s has spoiled a once beautiful relationship quicker than you can say Lafayette. Forget about Europe, shriek the all-conquering ones, only Britain and Israel matter. ‘We saved the French twice in one century, but they still think they have the right to follow their own foreign policy.’
Well, however true that may be, I used to think Americans had longer memories. Such as the fact that the French navy and army rescued the American cause at Yorktown, where they bottled up Cornwallis and forced him to cry uncle.
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