Check out “The French: Why

Check out “The French: Why do they hate us?” by Chris Suellentrop in Slate. Suellentrop reminds us that the French have been contrary on Iraq for a while, quoting Clinton State Department spokesman James Rubin in 1999: “We do find it puzzling and passing strange that France would spend so much energy and focus so much attention on the danger to them of a strong United States rather than the dangers that we and France together face from countries like Iraq.”