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Originally Posted by kazbates
[...] There is a regular poster here who VERY obviously has no good will toward the United States. He does not live in my country but feels it is within his rights to bash it every chance he gets. And that's okay. [...] The problem is there are plenty of posters here who are American and love their country ~ the good and the bad ~ and take great exception to having to read his caustic diatribe. If we were to turn the tables and discuss his country with such negative vitriol, I think it might make him angry, too.
The bottom line: Treat people the way you want them to treat you. It's really very simple.
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*search & replace "American" with "French"* --ditto.
(and I'll keep my opinions about Sarkozy to myself... well, wouldn't be of big consequence : at least it would only begin a flame war in French 
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May I mention here that I'm sick and tired of French bashing "jokes" ? -- (and bashing is bashing, whatever the form it takes).