>>Without France we could not have won the revolutionary war. Chances are that we would still be a part of the British Empire.
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>True, and France and the US are both different countries today than they were then.

As someone said to you yesterday (John R.?), if France is no longer one of our allies we are even more isolated than we thought. IMO we need to shore up our relationships with allies, not cavalierly leave them behind.