Steven
LOL ... If you look back a decade, the US was the "good guys." You will be again. You just need to sort out the current problem and pass a new law that says you will never, ever, ever start another war without French support. ;-) Bearing in mind that France sank a ship in a NZ harbor not so long ago, which is actually an act of war, it isn't so hard to compartmentalize pride and get on with making the best of it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
