Interesting Foreign Policy News today

• French manage to not be offended long enough to agree to long term non-combat operations cooperation agreement with Afghan Government.  We haven't yet, but this is another indicator that we probably will: Washington Post
• Phillipines becoming more amenable to hosting more US forces as part of what I am officially christening "Operation Wu-Tang: remind China that America ain't nothin' to f*$& wid.": Stars & Stripes 
• Business Casual Fashion Pioneer and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to reopen nuclear talks in a sign that crippling sanctions are starting to have a, well, crippling effect on Iran: Al-Jazeera; Fox News; NY Times