"I would bet that the Ivory Coast would be a far better future ally than old, dead EuroFrance, and more consistent with Western Civilization (other than Chartres and French cuisine which are France's only excuses for existence) and American values as well. I bet abortion mills are harder to find in Ivory Coast than in any French city"
Tell that to the government-appointed mobs that rampaged Abdijan to "hunt down white people" last year...if that is the "American values" and "Western Civilization" you want to foster.
France has had its chance at Western Civilization and rejected it. The possibilities of the Ivory Coast are still open. Robert Taft the Elder (not a rampaging populist) urged the US to abandon Europe in 1948 when Europe was far better off than today and urged us to engage the Third World which still had not rejected freedom.
Personally, I hopethat France falls again. This time, we should sit back and laugh at their fate and ignore their pleas. Let 'em learn Arabic.
Gallia delenda est.