[katana]

I have to agree with you. Identifying all the French with the idiocy of their governing class (and it is a class) is no different than someone thinking CNN, the New York Times, and Peter Jennings represent the point of view of most Americans. It just ain't necessarily so.

On the other hand, there is nothing unhealthy about Americans letting the French government (their embassy) know what we think of them and making them pay a price for it by cutting them out of the world's largest market. Also, on the other hand, the French really should bathe more often.