We Should Be Like the French

They know how to party.

I was a high school junior enlisted as future paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division in March 2003 when Ellen Degeneres’ best friend George W. Bush lied our way into “shocking and awing” another country of brown people halfway across the world.

As I sat in home room watching my country spend millions of dollars in bombs in a country I couldn’t find o…