Surrender Monkeys

Ken Anderson

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Do any of you remember when the president of France felt the need to address the fact that people around the world, but mostly the United States, were referring to the French as "surrender monkeys"? The humor was not so much in the term as that it had risen to the level of requiring official notice. When you have to beg people to quit calling you a surrender monkey, you've already lost the argument. I think that was around the same time as a push in the U.S. to rename "French Fries."
 
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The French lost up to 1.5 million men in WW 1. I think it weakened the "warrior gene" in the male population gene pool and struggles to recover.
Lots of nations lost good men to both WWs, somewhat in Korea, and more in Vietnam.

Didn't Japan run out of pilots from the working class in WW2 and then put college students/grads behind the wheel, thus loosing a chunk of their better educated?
 
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