As for the rest of that epithet of recent decades, so popular among the Fox News cliche-spouting legions, I’d have to say that our own drone strike warriors maybe pale a little bit in comparison to the two millennia (and counting) martial history of the Gauls and the Franks and the Normans (all of whom I’m sure liked a good Brie or Camembert) and the leaders like Charles DeGaulle, who had the resolve to give up on Imperial dreams and cede back Algeria in the face of however many assassination attempts the Jackals could formulate, without shrinking from public exposure. Now, you can say they threw in the towel a little early in 1940, but after enduring 150 years that started with the French Revolution, and included the Napoleonic Wars, the barricades, the French Commune, the Prussians, the to-ing and fro-ing of Alsace-Lorraine, Verdun and the Somme, well you might find yourself a little worn out and undermanned by the time of the Blitzkrieg yourself. How would America’s safe-space-addicted snowflakes deal with having, not the Atlantic Ocean, but the German nation as its next door neighbor to the East? Hell, as someone who identifies himself with the American Right, I’d trade the whole lot of Conservatism Inc. for Marine Le Pen and Marion Marechal. Right now.

As for M. Macron, my expectations at the time of his election were zilch, but he has surprised me a few times, and I’m glad you took time to salute him. He should be encouraged, as anyone should be, when they are so clearly right on an issue of heritage and memory. How well will America stack up to the French after 2,000 years? To ask the question is ridiculous to the point of absurdity. Will we even still have a union five years from now, on the 250th anniversary of the founding? I’m tempted to think not, and not sure whether that would be such a bad thing, if we didn’t.