Politics

American World Military Presence

The French complain about The United States military around the world, but are silent about the thousands of French troops stationed around the former French Colonial world, usually helping to prop up corrupt failed states repressing their people. With the Gallic shoulder shrug of C'est La Vie, the French are willing to let abominable leaders continue their misrule. Becuase they are at heart in league with the statist ideas that these despots use. The French are still not wholly removed from the idea of the Devine Right of Kings that Louis XIV stated so succinctly: L'etat c'est moi -- I am the state.