Indeed.
But France's suspicion of US power and desire to be independent is nothing new.
Nor ill advised. I envy France. How much better it must be to be revered as the the state of love, art and the city of light than to be revered as the world's greatest ass-kicker.
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
