4) You can't judge the French in WWII without acknowledging the alacrity with which the Vichy regime rounded up Jews and other undesirables, making themselves entirely complicit with Nazi atrocities and crimes against humanity.
How do you respond to my point about our own carpet bombing of civilians in WW2? I haven't researched it but I would guess we killed more German civilians than the Vichy French deported jews.
Nobody's pretending the French have conducted themselves perfectly, but I find it irritating to read insensitive jokes about French courage. How would people here react to a joke or snide remark about the redcaps being overun in Iraq?