Joseph, lumping together Iran and France as the anti-American coalition was meant to be an easy one-liner, I know, but one which falls far from the truth you so want to see. If you listen to many Iranians, not just the hardliners of the soundbites, but everyday Iranians, they have no battle with America. Their words and aspirations have been hijacked by a regime playing a dangerous power game. And the French (as an American living in France for the last 20 years and who teaches American studies at the University of Paris, I know from what I speak) are far from anti-American. Sure the French didn't slavishly follow Bush/Chaney into Iraq (and bully for them) but that doesn't make them anti-American, just thoughtful.