News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
PARIS — On Monday, French officials questioned how the United States could classify the airman rescue mission a success when no one surrendered to the Nazis.
The dramatic rescue mission featured dozens of warplanes keeping Iranian forces at bay as SEAL Team 6 extracted the wounded airman from a mountain crevice after he was located by the CIA. Yet, through the entire course of the mission, not a single soldier surrendered to the Nazis.
“The silly Americans, trying to play it off as some great success,” chuckled French President Emmanuel Macron. “It takes real audacity to claim triumph when not one person has surrendered to Hitler. ‘Oh, look at us Americans, we went and rescued a guy stranded behind enemy lines, but we forgot to surrender to Hitler.’ Idiots!”
According to Pentagon sources, a thorough review of the mission confirmed that no one, in fact, surrendered to the Nazis during the rescue. “I’m afraid the French are correct,” said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “At no point during the location or extraction of the downed airman did any of our soldiers lay down their arms and give themselves up to the Nazi regime. By French standards, it was admittedly a total catastrophe.”
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Ooff. The Bee lands one in the breadbasket. 😉
The French flag is all white with a yellow streaks on the back. They’re on their way to becoming the new Iran without a shot.
What happened to “la gloire”, so long celebrated as part of French identity, whether royalist and republican? Edmund Burke talked about it, Napoleon counted on it. Chesterton and Belloc celebrated it. Where’d it go?
How do you say “It was a truly glorious surrender!” in French?
“What happened to “la gloire”,”
I think it was ripped out of the French by their hideous losses in World War I. Petain was placed in charge of the French Army in 1917 and he told his war weary troops that they would wait on the tanks and the Americans. The French fought bravely enough in 1918, but something had gone out of the French soul as demonstrated by their rout in 1940. I don’t think it has ever been recovered.