I don't doubt that many French support us.
But why are so many of your government officials and so many of your countrymen so anti-US at such a time that we need to band together?
"But why are so many of your government officials and so many of your countrymen so anti-US at such a time that we need to band together?"
Basically, they are not. They clearly DO favor a different approach on many issues - but still pursue the same goal, which is stability in those areas of the world we have special interests in, be that economical, historical, or cultural ties.
So yes, France and the United States clashed on Iraq, and badly so. But they went along quite fine when it came to stabilizing Lebanon and rolling back Lybyan influence in southwestern Africa in the 1980s, of keeping Iraq out of Kuwait and trying to topple Somalian warlords in the 1990s, or fighting Talibans in Afghanistan and getting Syrians out of Lebanon in the 2000s.
They also see eye-to-eye when it comes to fighting terrorism. Why do you think the Alliance-Base anti-terrorist unit is based in Paris, and not in London ? Because France had a tougher stance on that matter of state security, while Great Britain has always been more respectful of individual rights, even when if said individuals might end up representing a threat.
Our main problem is that we are a little too good at pushing each other's buttonbs and at doing it for fun - or at thinking it's the right thing to do. France can differ with the opinions in Washington without turning into an Al-Qaeda member - and conversely, the USA can defend an opinion which doesn't please Paris without being the Great American Devil.
At the end of the (historical) day, when all's said and done, there aren't too many battlefields where French and US troops didn't fight side-by-side, there aren't too many cases where US and French LEOs didn't work side by side, ansd they aren't many occurrences where French and American citizens didn't find out they had a lot of common and a mutual interest in each other. Whether it remains this way is, I think, ours to decide.