[Ragtime Cowgirl]

As Americans – outside of academia and the media, that is – have learned the hard way, no sane foreign policy can be based on Frenchmen's self-esteem problems, and their delusion that they are still a world power.

Thanks for the ping, mrustow. There's a lot of delusional thinking going around these days. Who informs the people? NEA, Hollywood, AP, BBC, ABC, NY Times, DNC...

[mrustow]

Sure thing, RC. I read an editorial in the NYT about a week ago, that discussed the French as if they were acting from the moral high ground in all they did re Iraq and the UN, while we unfortunately had unenlightened leaders who had not yet come around to reason. The whole thing was nothing but a groveling, sycophantic, public apology for being American from the Times' brass to the French.