Because no one likes you monkey boy.

I breezed through John Miller's Our Oldest Enemy about, obviously, the French. It wasn't a bad read, certainly a quick and easy read. It was published not too long after the whole "Freedom Fries" nonsense and serves as a good primer to the actual history of our relationship with the French. It helps do away with the nonsense that the French assistance during the Revolutionary War was anything more than a temporary matter during a time when our interests ran parallel briefly.

It's not the hit piece that I've seen it made out to be, but it's not more than a quick, popular history of one very limited aspect of American foreign policy and involvement, so don't expect too much if you pick it up.

This also affords me the opportunity to tell my favourite joke about the French. Why are there trees planted along the Champs Élysées? Because Germans prefer to march in the shade.