France Loves Us Again

So says Judah Grunstein:

Today, America is who France would like it to be, because on a historic level, Obama's election represents all of our potential for change, progress and evolution that France finds so attractive. And I think that can be generalized for the world. The quarrels will come not on the level of history, however, but later, when history is brought back down to earth by the urgencies of politics.

This Iraq journalist is overjoyed, if still suspicious.