I agree with you, and I am dismayed to see any gloating at all. It was the French news media, not the French people, who gloated when we were hit by hurricane Katrina. And it is the average French citizens, not the French government, whose cars and houses and factories are being torched. I dislike the French government very much but I hold no anger toward their people.
Does this dismay you any??...
PARIS, France (CNN) -- Throughout the spring, and into this summer, a leading bestseller in France has not been some great work of French literature but a $17-dollar paperback called the "Horrifying Fraud."
The book casts doubt on the official version of the events of September 11, substituting an elaborate conspiracy concocted by America's military-industrial complex in order to increase U.S. military budgets.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/06/26/france.book/