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Saturday, June 01, 2013

This is Kind of Funny, Actually

Malians have gotten over that throwing-flowers stage of gratitude for France routing the jihadis who controlled the northern part of their country.

Even France took longer than this to forget about their gratitude to America for D-Day and liberation in 1944:

Youth in the recently-liberated Malian city of Gao held a sit-in on Thursday to protest against what they see as France's tacit support of the Tuareg ethnic group, the first indication that the mood toward the French in Mali is changing.

Gao was the first city where Islamic extremists were pushed out by French forces in January, and is now where the population is staging the first act of protest against the French.

Yeah, kind of sucks, huh?

Obviously, the British and Canadians were there for D-Day and even the Poles contributed a lot of troops for the drive through France, but lack of gratitude seemed to be reserved for America.