"But starting with conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and continuing after the socialist Hollande won last year’s election, it’s France that’s been America’s strongest, most constant, most vigilant partner in Syria, Mali, Libya, Iran and beyond.
That’s a long way from the French being the most vocal and skeptical opposition to the invasion of Iraq, and all the gleeful French-bashing that followed, to the point that they were renaming crinkle-cut potatoes served in the congressional cafeterias.
“If you look at what the U.S. and France are doing together in different parts of the world today compared to what we might have been doing 10 years ago, it is quite a dramatic expansion of the alliance,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, who called the French “an ideal partner” for the president’s foreign policy. The new order got the most attention last September, when British Prime Minister David Cameron couldn’t get the Tory-led Parliament to support the strikes on Syria Obama wanted and the president couldn’t convince his own party in Congress, while Hollande became the only major — and adamantly vocal — supporter of dropping bombs on Bashar Assad.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/why-barack-obama-loves-france-103290.html?hp=f1
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