Dammit, Where Was Our Exit Strategy?

Forget Vietnam. What great coverage of a real quagmire...

Sixty years after Paris was seized by the "Allies," and the beginning of the American occupation, France remains a failed nation, mired in political corruption and beset by vast pockets of Muslim extremism and anti-semitism, into which the gendarmerie fear to tread. The economy continues to struggle under economic policies driven by failed ideologies, and many of its best and brightest continue to flow out of the country, with only ex-dictators and their families, and hysterical movie stars willing to move there.

Sadly, history has born out the predictions of those who, in the spring of 1944, warned against invading. Many had pointed out what a poor prospect the region was for any kind of democracy, with its long history of belligerence and arrogance, and failed republics.

Noted WW II historian Robert Winthrop pointed out that the occupation got off on the wrong foot from the beginning, when the Americans freely allowed atrocities in the fall of Paris. "In the wake of all the violence and sex that the brutal 'Allies' condoned, it's not surprising that the resentment lives on six decades later."

You know, this actually explains a lot about France.

Seriously... it's been 61 years since D-Day. The courage it took for those soldiers to attack the fortified positions of the Germans at Normandy has rarely existed in the history of mankind, but it's to our nation's credit that we have consistently produced men and women of that caliber. Say a prayer for all those who lost their lives on behalf of our nation, as well as humanity, particularly on that day.