Trump demands respect?

If it was so important, why didn't the UK attend? The French don't pay their way in NATO and neither do the moneybags Germans. Why should we stick our necks out for that? Putin has his hands full with China but he must see European hypocrisy.

 

No it doesn't. what sows division within NATO is the freeloading members that don't pay their fair share.

A memorial service will have no effect one way or the other.

As for Putin, he couldn't care less about 2000 Americans buried in France.

Your imagination is running wild in an effort to justify your hate.

 

I was in Chicago the last weekend of October. I had not been there since 1991. I stayed at a Marriott in downtown (Near North) neighborhood. This is not a bad neighborhood. There was a shooting on the street in front of the hotel that night. Some sort of an argument, someone pulled a gun and a guy got shot in the leg.

All together in Chicago there were 43 shootings and 4 fatalities that weekend. The Uber driver on the way to the airport downplayed it as being a fluke for that neighborhood and as a percentage of the population the number of shootings was not out of line.

 

Chicagoans try to keep most of the shooters and shootings confined to their southern plantation. I think you were just unlucky.

 

A lot of it has spilled over into the Water Tower area with flash mobs. A couple of years ago they crashed the Magnificent Mile on Black Friday. There was a case where a teenage girl in a McDonald's near the Water Tower saw some people arguing and so she went up to the counter and they people hit her in the head with a hammer for cutting in line. All of that area used to be very quiet. In fact, crime was not tolerated downtown at all. No more.

I would like to go to Chicago to the Oriental Institute but I am afraid. Of course, I am 77, and Hoosiers cannot carry guns in Illinois.

 

What was immoral? It was a glitch. The French said that we were their enemies like China and Russia. May did not go at all. We had only the misfortune to come in at the end of the war and we did not have much do to with the peace conference.

 

Won't wash.

 

You are very correct. Marcon says that Petain was a great soldier and he gets a pass but Petain went over to the Nazis. The British don't even attend in France and yet they say that Trump did not do enough. The Brits don't make any sense.

 

The Uber driver said something similar. He said that if you analyze the shootings they occur in the same dozen neighborhoods, or thereabouts. Having one in the near north neighborhood was a fluke.

 

Trump's helicopter was grounded by rain. A motorcade would have disrupted Paris traffic for hours and hours. The decision was made not to attend the event.

I think you are making a lot more out of this than it really was. Let it go.

 

Yes, so obviously bringing himself and his entire entourage to France means he didn't want to go in the first place and found the rain to be a convenient excuse.

 

I'd rather accept the evidence.

 

Only to you and your ilk.

It just could be that the President felt unwelcome , since Macron publicly declared that the United States is an enemy of France and also accused the President of treason.