If you check Chirac's body language in every photo at the Nato summit, he's sulking, angry, and looks like a badtempered two year old who'd not getting attention. That's France's problem, no one cares what they think, esp. when GW is around!
LOL! Bush and Blair get the spotlight again!!!
You are so right about Chirac. He never looks happy or joyful in any of these event photos but then it's of his own doing.
Prairie
France has had a problem with her international image ever since English (the Hated English!) replaced French as the international language of diplomacy. And all that came with that ...
If I try to imagine myself, as an American, at a time when America had fallen into decline after being a world power, a superpower, I can get something of an idea of how the French must feel. I wouldn't wish them to get stronger in their current state, however. France needs God, very badly, on a much larger scale than she knows Him now.