[KC Burke]

Thanks for your reasoned post at #25. I know I have mentioned it elsewhere, but your frank insight is always valuable since you don't just vent some bile, but instead, show your on-the-ground insight of involvement and those that have watched you over the years know how true you are on a consistant basis.

I guess I will have to examine my bitterness that I have held the last few years.

[El Gran Salseron]

"I guess I will have to examine my bitterness that I have held the last few years."

You should study history. France has been anti-US for over 200 years. The only reason, and I repeat, the only reason they "helped" the US during the Revolutionary War wasn't actually to "help" us but to hurt GB.

They have consistently voted against us in the UN for over 50 years that I can remember but their anti-US attitude extends to way back before then.

The election of Sarkozy isn't going to change anything, if at all, overnight.