Today's Kuwaitis are tomorrow's French. Gratitude is short. Resentment is long. And the Afghanis repaid our help in the 1980s by hosting Al Qaeda, so I'm not sure I can take much heart from your observations.
...and so on, even from some Canadians and French, backs me up.
I'll have to take your word for that because I haven't seen squat from the French and the flannel French. Oh, there may be a handful of civilians who like us well enough, but that doesn't do us any good when the French government sells weapons to the Iraqis.