The feckless trifecta: The United Nations, France, and the Democrats

First, Charles Krauthammer criticizes the Democrats, on bended knee before the cheese-eating surrender monkeys:

The whole French proposal is unserious -- almost as unserious as the Democrats, whose only alternative to Bush's $87 billion is to get bailed out by France.

And of course, the Gauls’ willful obstruction to all things American is the reason why regard for the United Nations has fallen to an all time low:

Gallup recently polled the U.S. on attitudes toward the U.N., and the poll, excerpted below, made news because the "poor" rating of 60% put the eminent international organization at its lowest ebb ever in America. Only 3% had no opinion. Want to guess why?

The run-up to the Iraq War earlier this year was serious business, but one of the recurring leitmotifs was the French government's opposition to anything American. So much so that two days didn't pass without a new vintage of French jokes pouring into the inbox. Jay Leno: "Why did we ever think the French would help us kick Saddam out of Iraq? They didn't help us kick the Germans out of France."

As Tom Friedman noted yesterday, the obtuse and peevish policies of the French will lead to repercussions if they refuse to confront terrorism:

What is so amazing to me about the French campaign — "Operation America Must Fail" — is that France seems to have given no thought as to how this would affect France. Let me spell it out in simple English: if America is defeated in Iraq by a coalition of Saddamists and Islamists, radical Muslim groups — from Baghdad to the Muslim slums of Paris — will all be energized, and the forces of modernism and tolerance within these Muslim communities will be on the run. To think that France, with its large Muslim minority, where radicals are already gaining strength, would not see its own social fabric affected by this is fanciful.

No matter: the French are for France and France is for the United Nations to keep the United States in check. But yet we’re the unsophisticated cowboys because we refuse to play along.