Over my dead body

The French are, apparently, calling for closer relations with the U.S., as French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier "told Americans" in a letter in the Wall Street Journal, according to this Expatica article.

The problem is France is NOT a friend of the United States. The French are pathologically self-centered and terminally corrupt and any friendship would be to their advantage. In many ways, it is the Cold War all over again. Whenever the French offer to deal, it is to their advantage and to our ultimate pain. The French influence on the United Nations has resulted in a UN Human Rights Commission with China, Libya, and the Sudan, a Food for Oil program that enriched Europe at the expense of Iraqi lives, and a distressing rise in worldwide corruption, and 800,000 dead Rwandans. Now they have this brilliant idea of "a high-level group of independent figures from both sides to explore ways to deepen political cooperation across the Atlantic." Read: leftwing Democrats, leftwing American academics, and leftwing American business leaders, no doubt led by an equally flawed Bill Clinton or a halfwitted cracker like Jimmy Carter. Meanwhile France will continue to supply nuclear weapons to every crackpot in the world as they urge us to consider closer relations. Yeah. Right.