Notre Histoire? Je Ne Me Souviens Pas! Alors! Tout Va Bien!

Oh, France. What a beautiful place, that is, unless you're going to make some absurd assertions at the outset of an unprovoked war against a secular Muslim country in the heart of the Middle East! Well, in that case, Americans will decide to hate you and go so far as to sacrifice the name of one of the country's finest delicacies, thereby ripping your country's name from the deep-fried dish so that the US can make war and chow down on freedom fries.

But now, it's almost as if those terrible, terrible days simply never happened.

Nicolas Sarkozy has taken over France and is vacationing on a lake in the US? Who could have ever imagined. And this is far from the days, as Molly Moore explains in a Washington Post piece, when "until recent months, official Washington has been discouraged form visiting France."

Discouraged from visiting France!? If there is anything Americans need to do more, it is travel overseas, and if we can't head for France, where are we supposed to go?

Regardless, it's good to see that we're all happy Westerners again. Enjoy your decadence!