This seems a good place, as regarding the commercial aftermath of Chirac's behavior, to call the attention of the formidable Frogman &ny others who might be interested, to another site's comment thread which, though I myself posted a few good (I hope) comments there, has reached a noteworthy level of quality &elevance thanks to the recentest comment posted there "Three Weeks in France, Ten Years Later" by one Ariel. The site is Blogitorial, the comment thread is "Carl's Junior disses France (June 13, 2003)," &omment thread's URL is (link) http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/06/carls_junior_disses_france.html .