At the risk of straying into politics:

America's Francophobic attitude is beginning to wear. George Bush made the mistake of presuming to summon the French to battle like they were vassals.

The response to which, entirely rightly, was Non!

Before anyone brings up World War 2. America didn't liberate Europe for the fun of it. They did so because it was in their interests to do so. The Third Reich was a threat to the whole planet. Anyone who had bothered to read Mein Kampf should have had absolutely no doubts as to Hitler's intentions.

Domination of Europe and Asia in his lifetime. Conquest of the Americas in his childrens.