The French Foreign Legion has never been laughed at.
The pathetic performance of the French army in World War 2 was because of the pacifism french film made popular at the time. I’ve read that the young Jews who rejected the HISTORIC pacifism of their RABBIS in the Warsaw ghetto, without food or arms, held out longer and did more damage than the French Army.
France had an active communist fifth column. We, today, have a fifth column that has almost completely taken over our universities, colleges and middle schools. That’s why homeschooling has enjoyed such popularity. I am no longer a Catholic, but I looked at the syllabus of a small Christian college and that’s where I would go for a classical liberal education if I were choosing a college today.
We have almost won the war against the mainstream media. And Hollywood is also feeling the economic effects of the boycott of their anti-war, anti-american films. The current strike may lead to writers taking the power Hollywood always has denied them.
The last bastion of the left is the university. But what if parents, trustees and alumni were to insist that nonsense like paying John Edwards $50,000 for a speech stop. That divisive black studies, womens studies, chicano studies programs don’t educate, they politicize and would no longer be funded. Government could help by saying that if you won’t allow ROTC on campus, you won’t get government money.
In decades past, the Reader’s Digest published Friedrich Hayek’s THE ROAD TO SERFDOM in Spanish in South America and democracy flourished.
The French know that what they have hasn’t worked. What they need now is to have the many terrific books on laissez-faire economics, democracy and freedom translated into French. And several novels too. Ayn Rand’s WE THE LIVING (about the horrors of life under communism) THE FOUNTAINHEAD (which posits that fascism and communism are not opposites but kissing cousins) and ATLAS SHRUGGED (about which element of society (and it isn’t labor) carries the world on its shoulders. The French are intellectuals and responsive to ideas. They just need new ideas and they will do just fine.
