[jammies]

This thread won't be complete until some lame fool makes a "French surrender monkeys" joke.

Now that that is out of the way, the French still have huge amounts of influence and what amounts to an informal empire in the countries that used to be under their control formally before decolonization. Their efforts, as always, owe more to retaining that influence than to any other purpose, and our assisting them seems somewhat suspect in that light, regardless of what other good it may accomplish.