I usually ignore Doonesbury, like I ignore Michael Moore, but this was particularly irritating.

The strip today was in French. I've linked to a subtitled version.

"What's that? You can't even think of one? [patriotic Franco-Americans] Check out the signature on this strip!"

Oh, yeah, sure. When I look up "Pro-American" in the dictionary, G. B. Trudeau's picture is right there.

And yes. If it had been the Eiffel Tower (or more analogous, the Tour de Montparnasse skyscraper*) that had fallen, the United States would have been right there at their side. You know it, Trudeau knows it, the rest of American knows it, and the French know it. And maybe some of the French votes in the U.N. might have been different.

*I doubt three thousand people would die if the Eiffel Tower fell down.