How do you feel..?? This sums it up for me.

Actual letter copied from marine in Bosnia.

> Dear Dad,
>
> A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp
> Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French army officer walked up
> to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
> (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going
> to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing
> happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support
> of France.
>
> I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had
> come to France's rescue in World War I, World War
> II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and
> jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in
> the near future anyway.
>
> I also told him that is why France is a third-rate
> military power with a socialist economy and a bunch
> of pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him
> that America, being a nation of deeds and action,
> not words, would do whatever it had to do, and
> France's support, if it ever came, was only for show
> anyway.
>
> Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would
> shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the
> support, as evidenced by the fact that this French
> officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the
> other way around.
>
> He began to get belligerent at that point, and I
> told him if he would like to, I would meet him
> outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass
> in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East,
> thus demonstrating that even the smallest American
> had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.
>
> He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a
> huff.
>
> With friends like these, who needs enemies?
>
> Dad, tell Mom I love her,
>
> Your loving daughter,
>
> Mary Beth Johnson