"FRANCE HAD TOTALLY SURRENDERED."
First, this is untrue.
France did NOT "totally" surrender. France lost a battle, and with it, control of the French mainland, but the French did not surrender. 400,000 Free French troops in Eisenhower's Army. Free French pilots in the RAF. The Underground saved 50,000 Allied pilots, in fearful danger to themselves and their families stuck in France under Nazi occupation.
Some French politicians purported to surrender for France, but other leaders never did, and a sizeable portion of the French people did not either.
Second: where was America during all of this?
Hitler was devouring democracies.
Boatloads of European Jews were turned back at the Statue of Liberty by the Americans.
The Japanese were devouring China.
Where was America?
Why did America do nothing?
Were the Americans afraid to fight?
Or were they just idiots, thinking that the rest of the world could fall to evil but that they could never be hurt themselves by it?
Which was it that kept America out of the war? Was it American cowardice or American stupidity?
The typical "ungratefulness of the French showing its true colors". The United States saved you from Nazi occupation and liberated your country and now you are blaming them why they did not come early. The United States does not have to defend anyone in this world, and when they do so it is out for their love for freedom of other people and they do it all the time, in WW I, WW II, Cold war, Kuwait war 1991, Afghanistan war, and Iraq war. The United States freed hundred of millions of people in the last one hundred year far greater than any other nation in history of mankind.