TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: Jim Bennett on the French:

The French are not a nation of cowards, as the “surrender-monkey” epithet implies. They are a nation of talented, creative, and brave individuals. Unfortunately, they seem to alternate being led by a crowd of moral dwarves, alleviated by the rule of the occasional flawed giant. It has been three decades since the last such grand, albeit irritating, giant disappeared. What gives France its current bad name has been the pack of moral munchkins in charge ever since.

The Lollipop Guild is still running the show.