You completely miss my point. If 2 terrorists were here in America doing this, would France have their soldiers help us? Where were their soldiers in this anyway?
My point is, we have allies and we are their allies but yet we spend all the money and do most of the work. I mean I know we get aid in various ways from other countries in times of war, but for the most part it's us and us alone. I hear about British troops all the time but I never hear France of doing jack for anyone.
Like being in a car wreck and I help you but vise versa you don't help me. So if France and other allies do their equal share of all the aid, then feel free to educate me but I'm sure it isn't cheap having our marines over there and bullets aren't free ya know.
Is it France's fault that the US don't attract enough French tourists?
Also has the US government ever invited foreign countries to estabilish military bases on its territory?
Would it be even useful considering that US has Japan, Australia and the philippines on the other side of the pacific ocean and Europe on the other side of the atlantic ocean?
No, it would be a waste of money.
There is a reason military bases are where they are.
France has military presence all over the Sahel region, especially in Niger, and they stopped a civil war in Mali.
They were directly involved in all the NATO wars.
The biggest expenses in NATO are carried by the US, but it's also by far the biggest country and it's also the country that usually takes the initiative and that maintains a military capable of force projection. Europe is more defense-oriented. Only France is interventionist when it comes to north africa and the sahel.
This is an almost exclusively French playground, the US doesn't do anything here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_France#Modern_period on this page you can see a long list of French military interventions in Africa that I don't even remember about.
Whether it's doing the right things is debatable, but France is surely more militarly involved than Britain. Britain just does what the US do. Maybe that's why you hear more about it, it's English-speaking, and it's like a branch of your own military.