USA #1

Crazy Muslim radical terrorist asshat boards a train with an AK-47, tons of ammo and a pistol. Two marines are on the train and hear gunfire. They go towards the sound, see the radical asshat terrorist struggling with a Frenchie. Frenchie gets points for trying, but in true Maginot Line style fails to subdue the shooter. One of the USA #1ers runs 30 feet towards the gunman and overtakes him. Terrorist then reaches for his pistol, USAers disarm him a second time. Nobody dies.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/two-u-s-...ain-1440238328

Seems like if Frenchie didn't get tangled up with this guy and slow him down, USA#1 heroes might not have ever had a chance.

Also the story seems to have changed from yesterday.

Another proof that "Get tangled up, wait for US intervention" is an unbeatable French strategy.

US 1: Terrorists:0
US Hero, Terrorists Zero

Marines = National Guard, airman, and a british IT old man.

But wait, they didn't even have guns. I thought the only thing that could stop a bad guy with a gun was good guy with a gun!

Guys willing to die to stop a bad guy with a gun are rare ime.

There was that one time...

Lafayette, nous sommes ici!

New Hampshire remembers him!

They weren't Marines

The British businessman, by his own account, just thought, 'I'm probably going to die anyway, especially if I don't do anything, so I can die sitting down doing nothing or I can die trying to do something, so let's go.' The brave young American servicemen hadn't yet subdued the gunman, and one of them was wounded, so he pitched in and helped them resolve the situation.

Standard operating procedure.

It's important to point out that the big hero was actually from USAF#1. And that I outrank him.

To be fair they were more interested in pissing off the British than helping Americans.

And it was basically the same thing. French navy blockades Yorktown but can't resolve anything until the American infantry shows up. Ever as it always was.

Pissing off the British is a noble cause!

The French lacking will to fight is one of the great unfounded myths in American lore, ranking right up there with the Founding Fathers were good Christians seeking liberty for all people.

In WW1, the French suffered more military deaths in 4 years than the US has in its entire history, and inflicted great losses on Germans holding the Western front. They weren't so keen on repeating the feat 20 years later in what surely would have meant destruction of Paris and it's great cities and populations. Easy to cast stones when the US's great civilian scare of the two world wars was an alleged bomb from a balloon in the middle of nowhere or the loss of a hundred people on a cruise ship likely carrying contraband.

Not to mention the truly heroic efforts of the French Resistance during WWII after their allegedly "cowardly" collapse. Many Allied war operations would literally have been impossible (or much more difficult) if not for the incredibly brave and terribly risky efforts of resistance members behind enemy lines.

The USA is pretty much the only time they really got their way and they don't even like it that much. We still have high hopes

Was very nice to see the British guy being so self-depreciating.

Apparently two of the guys are from my area (Sacramento). Predictably, conservative friend facebook is in full swing, replete with:

(1) Jokes about the French.
(2) Links to Breitbart incorrectly identifying them as marines.
(3) Demands to know why Obama said nothing (he did).
(4) Demands to know why the media isn't covering it more, despite it being linked to by like 25 different websites.

Except maybe the time that US troops ran away (from the Italians, in one sector, which, obviously, takes some doing) at the Kasserine Pass in '43 and the Free French did not, and veteran British troops had to move in and prevent a complete rout.

And maybe the time the Americans thought they could do better than the French had in Vietnam, but sort of didn't. Perhaps you heard about it. (There's an excellent Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell The Spartans, about that, set in Vietnam in '64. The climactic battle, in which the Americans are wiped out by the local resistance but for one survivor, is fought near an old French military cemetery, with the legend over the gateway, supposedly taken from the mass grave of Leonidas's men at Thermopylae: 'Stranger, when you find us here, go tell the Spartans that we died according to their laws.')

Apparently that gun was jammed, 7 full clips at the guy's disposal, would have been worse than the charlie hebdo shootings.

Honestly. You'd think we'd occupied Washington, gutted the White House, wrecked the Capitol and burned the Library of Congress or something. Oh, wait a minute, we did actually do that, yeah. (And name one other power that's done the same.)

Still, that was in measured retaliation for the Americans burning the parliament, the governor's house and other government buildings in York (now Toronto), capital of Upper Canada, in contravention of the laws and customs of war at that time. And the Americans, who were the aggressors, had declared war in the first place because (a) they wanted to carry on the Atlantic slave trade, which the Royal Navy was intercepting, and (b) they wanted to annexe Canada, a land to which they had no right or title -- neither of those being exactly a noble cause.

It is extremely fortunate that young men with military training, who knew the sound of a gun being loaded, and understood the need to react, were sitting right there at the time.