I am heartened to witness your embrace of manly logic in the wake of kvetching like a bitch. “Given the choice between military intervention and an inspections regime that is inadequate because of a failure to cooperate on Iraq’s part, we must choose the decisive reinforcement of the means of inspections,” Villepin said. In other words, given the choice between A and B, we must choose C.

Don’t get me wrong—it’s good to see you posturing like any kind of man, even a Frenchman. We must do our best to oppose terrorism, both foreign and domestic. Even so, your patriotic agenda are ill served by citing Britons who regard your country UK’s biggest threat after al-Qaeda and Iran.