Let me see, this so called pundit believes the French came to our aid because they liked our uniforms and the cut of our jib.
What the Frogs wanted was the States not to be aligned with Britain, their main enemy.
Their motives were entirely political.
For their help I would suggest we send them a few boatloads of soap. Yes, I have detected the presence of a French person before I could see him/her. And believe it or not, I knew it was a French stink.
Oh yes, and we should not bring up the fact that we pulled their derrieres out of the fire in WW one and two. Oh yes, and kept them free to pursue their odiferous pandering during the Cold War. That would not be polite.
A people that wants to smell like a homeless person but yet declare any degree of superiority is risible.
"The next time you hear a bunch of talk show patriots trash-talking the French for congenital anti-Americanism, ingratitude and cowardice because France led the international opposition to President Bush's misadventure in Iraq, politely inform them there would be no United States of America without France. Mr. Lockman has a fine grasp of the comic book version of history. While the Fench did supply the American Revolution with credit, supplies, and eventually troops and naval support, their main focus was always directed at trying to capture the vastly important sugar-producing islands in the Caribbean from the British. When Washington requested help from the French fleet for a combined operation against Cornwallis at Yorktown, Count de Grasse allowed that he could only spare his fleet from the West Indies for a few weeks, no matter what effect this might have on Washington's plans or the American cause.
Later, when the Americans and the British began to negotiate a peace treaty that would give us our independence, they had to keep it secret from the French who saw no advantage comming to them if the war in America ended.
As Casey Stengel used to say: "That's a fact, you can look it up".