Pretty ironic I guess, that the French are being accused of being spineless because they're standing up against the world's only superpower and not letting it push them around.

Ebbie, it's a (somewhat pathological) form of recreation for the English to bash the French. I know because I have to keep reminding people I know who were raised in British Commonwealth nations that I am part French.

(I'm also part English. And part Orange Irish, and part Green Irish, and part German, along with the French. I'm constantly fighting with myself ;-)