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According to today's New York Times, French cultural exchange programs are currently having a hard time finding host families for their students, largely because of leftover anti-French hostility from the Iraq War II.

One interviewee ironically notes: "They'd be speaking German if it weren't for us." Of course, it doesn't matter that without French support, we wouldn't have won our own war of Independence, would probably have been economically sunk in the years that followed, and wouldn't have been able to purchase the Louisiana territory. So, no, France has never done anything to help us.

If the current anti-America feeling continues, I wonder if France should ask for the Statue of Liberty back. . . .