Re: Its easy to poke fun at the French...
The French already poke fun at the Belgians, same as the British poke fun at the Irish.
There' certainly no hatred between the US and France! Sometimes, journalists like to boast about a divergence, but basically, there's no reason for animosity.
The main problem is the language one. And now, I'm pretty filled from the US side.
I spend a lot of time on the internet defending the US point of view towards the frenchspeaking and vice-versa.
France is very silent in its criticism, actually. Perhaps because they think they only need to let events unfold.
Raoul