Yes, that shows how insidious the metric system can be, if you let it get the tiniest foothold in your country! (View Post)

I'm not sure that's true. We contained the Soviet Union whatever France did during the Cold War. And the Soviet Union was more of a military threat than Putin's Russia. France is a nic… (View Post)

Eh? You said, and I quote, that "we need to use modern measures ... shared by the rest of the known universe". I've pointed out to you that that is simply not true. The United States i… (View Post)

Probablement, but I don't think we've ever recalled ambassadors because we lost a commercial contract, have we? (View Post)

France will never be anybody's closest ally, certainly not ours. They have a wildly excessive view of their place in the world. They are a democratic China - needy, chippy, unpredictable and unf… (View Post)