-> I think you are both deluding yourselves! The French have done pretty
-> well of late. In fact they have Airbus airliners selling all over the
-> world in direct competition with Boeing, a rocket program that regularly
-> launches satellites for many countries, nuclear reactors for sale to
-> whoever wants one, and countless other leading edge technologies. Let's
-> not even talk about the wines to which US wines by comparison seem like
-> mouth wash. They may have eminently stupid intellectual institutions and
-> politicians but you are dead wrong to underestimate the competition!

 I thought the Air Bus was a British Design??
And as far as Wines go you must be drinking from the Gallon Jugs. Let me
assure you some Califronia Wines are equal to or exceed that of
France. Now not presently in the Volume they produce but that is
comming. NO Wine before it's Time as they say!!!. :-)  :-)
 Adn I just need to point to their Cars to Prove theri Engineering
Tallents don't measure up. And rembember they also are still big into
the Chernoble type of Nuclear Reactory. A Decidedly "Brain Dead"
decision for sure. And a pending Disaster of proportions we don't want
ot think about.
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