Help the french?

Although in almost any other case I would say we should've helped the French, in this case, I think that we had a good excuse. As I think maybe it was Joe saying, that in 2003 and 2001, we had been a stable country for a long time, so we had a lot of experience under our belts, and we could afford to take time and help Afghanistan and rid them of the Taliban with Operation Desert Storm. I think that because we've all lived through that experience, people get a strong opinion in their heads that that's what America's about, helping people and getting favors in return, so when people are asked if they think we should help France, they automatically assume we should because we're known to be kind people with good morals. Despite America's reputation, we have to remember that like all countries, we went through a beginning phase too. It's completely illogical to stop in the middle of creating the American government and working out all the kinks in the system to make everyone happy, and leave it all behind to go help France. Don't get me wrong, I think we owe something to France for helping us in our revolution, but right then was not the right time, sometimes we have to focus on getting our act together before we can help someone else. I think that leaving the country kind of idle could cause impatience with the people. If something goes wrong, if they start to rebel a tax or get angry, then we'll have to force ourselves to leave in the middle of helping the french and that could cause french resentment, especially if the revolution gets out of hand because everyone knows france has america on their side, they might raise the severity of the rebellions and if we left, it would leave the French to a worse fight that they'd be by themselves on. Also, I think we shouldn't help France right now because no doubt would we make enemies. A new country has enough problems to fix, they don't need enemies on top of that. We were already disliked by all the world's monarchs. If we gain respect from countries, then when the French need us, we can help them and we won't bring in more enemies into the French's problem, because more countries will respect and like us, and maybe can make an alliance in the future, which obviously happens. No doubt do we owe France something, at the very least, some support, but it just wasn't the right time to do that.