Of course the French didn't want us there either.
True. Petain's Vichy government didn't want us there and they didn't want us in North Africa, either.
The French were not our allies in WW2.
Hell, DeGaulle was such a pain that both Eisenhower and Churchill entertained having him assassinated. DeGaulle could hardly be called an ally of ours. The SOB even tried to go join the Warsaw Pact at one point in 1947-48.