That's right. You don't need glasses. Gary Schmitt and Reuel Gerecht of the American Enterprise Institute argue:
Since the suburban riots last August, the perception that France is in decline has become de rigueur in French, European, and American circles. Economically, culturally, educationally, militarily, diplomatically, and even gastronomically, France seems to have significantly diminished. But French foreign policy--which has become noticeably less anti-American since the Iraq war and tougher toward Iran's quest for nuclear weapons--suggests that France may already be recovering from its déclinisme. A more pro-American France--a surreal idea for many foreign-affairs practitioners in Washington--may not be that far off…. France may well already be on the cusp of a major, positive transformation, at least in foreign affairs. Although it has been little remarked in both the American and British presses, France under Jacques Chirac has apparently broken with French practice in its diplomacy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. Understood in a French context, Paris's Iran policy within the European Union's (EU) efforts to halt the growth of Tehran's nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs has verged on the revolutionary, threatening to downgrade, if not discard, anti-Americanism, tiers-mondisme, and commercial self-interest as France's guiding lights in the Middle East. If the French continue their hard-line policy toward clerical Iran--and again, it is important to note that France's approach within the context of the EU-3 negotiations merits the description "hard-line"--it could quite conceivably convulse the way France conducts its foreign policy everywhere. France's "pro-American" Iran policy is a potentially landmark turn.
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