Excellent post. Indeed this is overlooked. Britain and Italy, and even Spain have been far more cooperative with us than the "evil axis" of Europe, France and Germany. The French, pucilanimous masters of appeasement, for whom thousands of Americans were sacrificied for their spinelessness in WWII, is going to tell us how to prosecute the war on terrorism. And the same pair that teamed up to bring you the Holocaust is now dictating to Israel the terms of its own annihilation. How fitting.
To continue to protect Western Europe from Communist Russia?
Seems we should be protecting the rest of Europe from the French-German economic Axis. They're rigging the EU to privilege themselves over the others. Russia is our new friend, and should be. It would be nice to see some massive joint US-Russia naval exercises to mark our new alliance - right off the west coast of France!