[djmcmath]

If France has a "problem," it's definitely the leadership, and not the people. I've met real French people, and they're quite nice. They're polite, and friendly, and still thankful to Americans to be not living under German occupation. Or perhaps it's the people in the Big Cities, the major population base. All of the people that I met were in little villages; we avoided big cities like the plague.

Either way, this kind of thing is never good for anyone. The farmers are most likely to suffer, and the people in the Big Cities will never know the difference.