Yes. I can understand maybe the government deciding that the French oil companies won't be able to get any lucrative contracts in Iraq after the war is over--that's just tit-for-tat politics and is to be expected. I have no problem with "low-key" decisions like that being made, and at least it'd be a mature, dignified, and substantial action.
But this shrill, low-class public display against the French has just gone overboard. It embarrasses the American people more than it shames the French.
The French are anti-US, why should we be aquiescent to their contempt?
If they want to be against us, that's their choice. But it is really stupid for us to buy things from them. A boycott has been undertaken, and here is a matter relevant to that boycott.
A purchasing boycott is arguably the most polite and civil protest there is. You don't do anything hostile to them, you just stop profiting them.
What's shrill or low-class about that? The French aren't what they used to be, anyway. They don't deserve admiration today, although the region certainly contributed a great deal to civilization in the past. Today they are decadent, they represent social decay and intellectual pestilence.
Best not to support them in anyway, lest they metastasise more profusely.
And why deprive them of an opportunity to learn from their error by preventing them from feeling any consequence for wielding their endemic post-modern dada gestalt hostily against us?