Mark,
Speaking as a Brit, Frederic I think you take offence too quickly.
If you had to put up with what the Americans have to put up with then I think
you would find what Thomas says about France is very mild in comparisonThink "some" people here in UT is "beating" too much in the french, german and whomever else doesn't blindly follows Bush's decisions, like the british do (...or should we say Tony's followers?).
If you think that
"what Thomas says about France is very mild", we have a real problem here...
Think there should be more respect with our fellow developers
and their countries. Political blindness is no excuse for disrespect, IMHO.
Regards,
Fernando