Sarkozy is a lot more complicated than just being friendly towards America - Chirac was friendly towards America - he just happened to disagree with ending diplomatic attempts at the Iraqi situation as soon as they were ended. The other thing about France is that the majority of people here are very insular. Sarkozy is, I hope, in the process of helping France realise its true position in the world and (even more importantly) in Europe - which is more important than a lot of Americans seem to give credit for but less important than a lot of French seem to give credit for

The other thing about Sarkozy, his government, and the move to the reasonable right here that is good is that France needs to slough of some of its 20th centuary socialist ideas because they just can't do anything other than bankrupt this country with its aging population.

That and his new wife has fantastic tits