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Hello Mike - 

->> If the French continue down this path they will find
->> themselves obsolete and forgotten in a world that has no
->> time for them any longer. 

TW>> Don't look now but it has already Happened. France has
TW>> been a Non Enity for quite a Few years now. 

MR> I think you are both deluding yourselves! The French have
MR> done pretty well of late. In fact they have Airbus
MR> airliners selling all over the world in direct competition
MR> with Boeing, 

AIRBUS was a collaboration. France didn't do this alone. 

MR> a rocket program that regularly launches satellites for
MR> many countries, 

This is somewhat true. They have a limited capability AFAIK. 

MR> nuclear reactors for sale to whoever wants one, 

Yes, in fact they had just signed a deal to sell them to Saddam
not long ago which probably explains their reluctance to boot
him out of Iraq. ;-) 

MR> and countless other leading edge technologies. 

Such as? 

MR> Let's not even talk about the wines to which US wines by
MR> comparison seem like mouth wash. 

Last time I watched a documentary about wine they said that the
differences between California wines and France were mainly
imaginery. I'm not sure that selling booze makes a country
great. 

MR> They may have eminently stupid intellectual institutions
MR> and politicians but you are dead wrong to underestimate the
MR> competition! 

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but I really don't
think anyone is underestimating the French.

http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/thefrench/htm 

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