I have a feeling there will be lingering resentment in Washington for some time - who knows how this will pan out?
The only people in Washington who are showing any type of support (very little) for the French are the democrat's, to be more specific the liberal's. Even then it's scarce to see anyone who gives a damn about the French at the moment. It's one thing to not be for the war and to vote against it, it's another to go out of your way to make it difficult on us. Everytime the French are brought up in a conversation over here all you will get is scoff's and jokes. I think the French overplayed their hand in their opposition to the war, and American's have memories like elephant's and this will remain fresh in most American's minds for quite awhile. I can forgive fairly easily, but my brethren wont soon forget.