Leave the French Alone...
I am not French in any way, but lately I've been disgusted with the number of ignorant, derrogatory statements made about them by many Americans. First of all, most of the people making fun of the French have never (and likely will never) experience battle or anything like it. They'll never know what it's like to have enemy soldiers, tanks, and other war machinery threatening their borders or trampling through their home towns. They're comfortable to sit back and rest in the laurels of the brave men and women in our military who serve and have served our country, never having offered a minute of their own time in such service. What's worse is that many of the jokes liken back to one of the most horrible, brutal times in history, the Second World War.
But besides this, all of this flaming France is really just a juvenile way to try to divert people from the fact that we really do not have a good enough argument to convince the French and others to come to our government's point of view. Ad hominem attacks are an age-old fallacy and a significant indicator of insecurity in one's own position.
I for one, a born and bred American, am not at all convinced that war is necessary for success in resolving the difficulties involving Iraq, and these pathetic indulgencies that many Americans are taking have only served to reinforce that our Administration's position on Iraq is questionable at best. If we do go to war, I will support our soldiers who, whether or not they agree with their chief, are risking life and limb for what is believed by many to be a just cause; however, regardless of whether we go to war or not or of the outcome of such a war, this childish ridicule of our allies should stop here and now.