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The French Foreign Minister has called for "a new trans-Atlantic relationship" between the United States and its European allies. . .

"We have to work together in the broader sense, and probably in what I call a new trans-Atlantic relationship, and get in the habit to talk more to each other -- even when we don't agree, because that happens -- to talk more about politics," he said Wednesday.

Gosh, I thought a rapprochement with France was going to be possible only if Kerry were elected and he went to Europe to express contrition on behalf of everyone in the United States for our collective sins.