A lot of the criticism of the Frenchicon military is unfounded and relates to the beginning of World War 2 only. The French currently have an excellent highly trained well equipped military that is one of the best in the world. Unfortunately like the rest of the Euros there are way too few of them.

I was listening to old Fred Barnes comment on a statement by Hillary Clinton that we need a "21st century" approach to the pirate problem off the horn of Africa. Barnes response was that we really "need an 18th century solution." The frogs seem to be on board with that, at least in this case.