Dislike of a particular person -- de Gaulle -- is hardly to be equated with an attack on his country. It was his idiotic boasting about his country's glory -- at odds with the realities of its military history -- to which I referred. Don't see how that could possibly be any sort of instance of 'racism' by any stretch. I am in fact very fond of France. One of my proudest memories is of being complimented on how well I spoke French by a real old dragon of a French woman police sergeant to whom I was reporting a robbery on the Paris Metro some years ago.

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