Gunnair Gunnair:
camerontech camerontech:
Last I checked eastern Afghanistan was no club med...maybe I'm wrong?
You're all pretty quick to call them cowards, simply because they are french
A quick google seems to show that there is a fair amount of military activity in eastern Afghanistan. Maybe the French ain't such cowards...

True but, the insurgent stronghold, supplied and the leadership supported out of Pakistan tribal lands is Khandahar. So big deal, France is in Eastern Afghanistan. Wait till we find out what they ACTUALLY do and more to the point what they want in return....the shoe WILL drop. If they do not send the Legion, they'll stay in their camps navel gazing. Other so called "smaller" NATO countries can and do more there and elsewhere than France ever will or has. France globally is like Quebec nationally when push comes to shove, a liability. France in fact (which is missed by most here) pulled out of NATO in the 60's under that f##k de Gaulle. In fact when he demanded that all NATO assets and particularly US troops be removed from French soil, Lyndon Johnson asked if that included the 60 odd thousand buried there. de Gaulle hung up.