Marie Claude, your shortcomings in idiomatic English have caused you to take offence where none was intended. Ms. Rosett wrote that Sarkozy warned Obama that denial and appeasement is the way to becoming French and American TOAST. Here in America, saying that something is TOAST implies that it’s over, finished, destroyed, kaput. Therefore, Ms Rosett’s play on words is not an insult to the French – it’s using an American idiom YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND to talk about the dangers of appeasement.

Ms. Rosett admires Sarkozy and his stance on this matter. She never implied that he mocked President Obama – that was your inference, which was mistaken. Your imperfect grasp of our language has somehow led you to boast about French painters – which is irrelevant and lame – and insult Americans – which is rude and pointless.

Please try to read more carefully and do your research before you post on things you do not understand.