This is some of the most ridiculous coverage ever in the Times. Again, the article is merely an apology for neo-liberalism mixed in with some anti-French sentiment. The one time it tries to give 'the other side,' it claims that the French are just stupid and confuse American adventurism abroad with the American economic system. As if they didn't go hand in hand...

French Youth at the Barricades, But a Revolution? It Can Wait
Similarly, when the French polling institute Ipsos last fall asked 500 people between the ages of 20 and 25 the question "What does globalization mean to you?" 48 percent answered, "Fear." Only 27 percent said, "Hope."

Disdain for what is called the "Anglo-Saxon model" sometimes becomes confused with residual criticism of America's projection of power around the world.

"I respect the world of Shakespeare and of Hemingway," said Bernard Reynes, the 52-year-old mayor of the once-flourishing farming town of Châteaurenard, outside Avignon. "I respect less the culture of Coca-Cola.

"Three years after the war in Iraq, the Americans are now admitting their mistakes there," he said. "The American way of life that judges the rest of the world severely is not the only way of life."