OT: Unarmed US Marines stop terrorist attack on French Train

to sell arms to Iran. Yes, very good allies indeed. 

Obviously they acted in what they considered their own interests; all countries do this.  But they basically paid for our entire war effort (and bankrupted themselves in the process), gave us a ton of weapons, blockaded our coast, threatened to invade England (forcing the British to keep troops at home), and sent an army over to Virginia.  You don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

on the french embassy.  

what're the chances of that....?

What you meant was your best friend's brother participated in a war crime, a violation of our Geneva convention treaty, a violation of US law and a crime against humanity for the strategic and economic interests of corporations who plunder resources and threaten or bribe dictators to enforce slave labor conditions and no pollution regulation so they can close US factories and plants in favor of the slave labor.

In this case a lot of the problem was Gaddafi's Pan African-ism and plans to form an African currency, and at least to get off the petro dollar and trade in another currency, just like Saddam was planning.

Additionally, like Saddam, like Chavez, like Castro and so many others in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere, using national wealth and resources for the benefit & betterment of their people puts them on the enemies list because we can't let the domino's of democracy, good governance, freedom, self governance, rights and power in the hands of people fall and spread.

Corporate wealth, power, criminality, impunity & immunity must be protected and furthered at all costs.

That means crushing people, their rights, their health, their education, their freedom, freedom of the press, rights to eat, to water, to breath, or to live.

Whatever it takes to make an extra buck for the only group of people that already have more bucks than they will ever possibly spend in 50 lifetimes!!!!!

Do you know what oBomBer's Orwellian, or Bushian quintuplespeak was in order to claim legality in continuing his destruction?

The law is that if you launch a "police action" or military action without a declaration of war or authorization from congress under the claim urgent emergency you can only continue "hostilities" for 60 days without getting that authorization.

So, like the Emperor's new bombs, oBOMBa declared that our bombing and slaughter "Does not rise to the level of hostilities"!!!!!

How many of you remember that? How many of you have ever heard that reported or commented on or talked about by the media outside of briefly at the time, and only reported, not examined or talked about?

Benghazi is the alleged scandal and talked to death without any context when the actual gigantic crime against humanity was the invasion and slaughter and subversion of human rights of the masses, which was also a gigantic breaking of the laws of man and nature, or even god if you believe in that.

Imagine worrying about whether or not Hitler or Mussolini cost 4 of their own men their lives with some mistake, but absolutely refusing to talk about what they were doing to how many innocent victims in the bigger picture! That is the exact analogy!

The only crime in Benghazi was what we were doing there and in talking about that meaningless garbage in face of massive crimes against humanity, massive fraud in selling the war and covering up the true motives, meaning they stole every penny from the tax payers to use it for things other than stated in requesting the money!

If none of the so called "liberal" media lets you understand this, nor any other mainstream media or right wing media, nor do Republican's or Democrat's talk about it, or about any of the real issues and threats that drastically affect peoples lives in terrible ways as a matter of business and govt. policy every single day then how is the whole thing anything other than a conspiracy and a con job?

The wool is thickly over the eyes of this doomed nation.

I can confirm some of what you say about media stereotypes and such.  The U.S. is portrayed in the French media as the epitome of free-market liberalism (in the international sense) and is regarded as overly extreme, with too many social disparities and an obsession with an individual freedom.  But French people can also be extremely self-deprecating and criticize their own society all the time, complaining about how it's too rigid, the employment laws are too strict, how society is losing its way, and all that.  When there are newspaper stories about the U.S., there often are lots of comments below about how France is behind the times and needs to open up.  

In any event, I was there for a year and I found - especially outside of Paris - that most people I met were very friendly and interested to learn more about the U.S.  Young people particularly don't buy into notions of cultural superiority as for one thing, youth unemployment is awful and it's becoming routine for young graduates to go abroad for at least a short time to beef up their résumé.

In Paris people can be tougher.  I will say in fairness that they have to deal with a lot of first-time tourists who know no French and don't understand French customs, and that's got to wear your patience down.  If you make some effort to fit in, they're generally OK, if not super nice.

From USA Today story - 3 people injured - the 2 Marines and 1 Frenchmen:

"The newspaper, quoting a prosecutor, reported that one of the soldiers was injured by a gunshot and the other by a knife. The French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade was also reported injured in his hand when he broke a glass to pull an alarm."

If not for the French, we would not have French Fries!

Seriously, hats off to those 2 Brave Marines, God love them and bless them!

I combine the both and have French bread pizza.

Also useful to remember they lost about 1.7 million fighting World War I before we "saved" them. Equivalent loss by % in the US today would be around 13.5 million people. And they lost 50% more people in WW2 and the occupation than the US lost in all of WW2 on both fronts.

Especially considering their role in our own independence, people should give more respect to the French, IMO. They've made sacrifices in the cause of freedom Americans probably can't really understand, sitting over here in our nice ocean-protected bubble.