[Shermy]

The conflict has escalated from neoconservative pundits to the man in the street who now despises France.

It escalated from the "man in the street." It's roots stretch way back, to the Libyan incident back aroud 1986

[happygrl]

It's roots stretch way back, to the Libyan incident back aroud 1986.

Try the French pull-out of NATO in the 1960s and the directive by De Gaulle to redeem all their American dollars in gold. This led to us going off the gold standard due to depletion of our reserves in Fort Knox.