About some old bashing

I want to talk about relationship between France and USA.
I'm french, and even if people of my country don't like the way of thinking of America, we respect it.

So, why, when I go on 4 chan and I see a topic about a french subject, I read always France bashing.

France, a normal country in a normal world, is so hated in America ? Why ? Our history is full of friendship!

Think of Lafayette for example

The whole Americans hating the French issue stemmed from the Reagan years, when France, for one reason or another, didn't allow the U.S. military to use French airspace to fly to Libya and bomb targets there.

As expected with Reagan supporters and republicans in general, they forgot (or never knew anything) about past history and now believe that France has done nothing for America, ever, either in regards to culture or in regards to military support (like in the Revolutionary War).

And because of that, all "patriotic" Americans need to "fight for freedom" by making jokes about how the French smell and surrender, and call French fries (which despite the name, aren't even French, and based on the high cholesterol and deep fried nature, are probably actually American in origin) "freedom fries."