It just goes to show that even though the French and English (and Americans) are ancestorially and historically tied together at the hip from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 (French Norman conquest of England), to the marriage of King Henry II to Elanour of Acquitaine (giving Henry control of nearly half of France through the dowry grant of the powerful Duchy of Acquitaine), to King Henry V's Battle of Agincourt where a far larger French infantry force was beaten by the smaller English dominated by a mud bath and the technologically advanced archers (see the "longbow" story you sent me), to the French and Indian War (where Col. George Washington made his name fighting the French on behalf of the English), to the American Revolution (where the French fleet and George Washington's army bottled up Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia), to the Louisiana Purchase (which helped Napolean fund his war on the Continent and with England), to 2 World Wars.

It is only now that we discover that the Brits, French, and Americans don't see eye to eye? As the French say, "my eye". As the English say, "rubbish." We two now three have perfected how to disagree since we have been doing it for nearly a thousand years.

The difference is now that we fight among ourselves using words. We disagree mostly about who to shoot but we agree not to shoot each other. That, at least, is progress.