What started this polemic - in another thread - was my disgust at the ignorant right-wing American attitude to France, and specifically to something that offended me, personally, very much. I am a cartoonist and a comics fan from of old, and once upon a time, Captain America used to be one of my favourite Marvel heroes. I was disgusted to find that some moron had made him use "France" as synonimous with surrender, and that started the whole thing. Any complaints about French African policies are in the nature of red herrings, dragged across the trail to draw attention away from the sickening ignorance and vanity of this sort of attitudes.