So what you are calling for is boycotting German and French products. But already in the past calls for much more worthy causes - eg the apartheid issue in South Africa - boycotts led to nothing.
I also seriously doubt it that a US boycott of German and French goods would really hurt those economies. With the even more advanced integration of the European Union - see the successful introduction of the Euro - the EU internal market carries much more weight than the relatively small US market.
And in the light of globalisation I have to ask the question again: are there still companies that can be called "German" or "American" or "French"? Is a Ford car built in the Cologne factory in Germany more or less American than a Mercedes or BMW built in the US? You stop buying BMW and you kill American jobs: that's the reality of globalisation!
In contrast, a German or French led boycott of products which stand for the US, eg McDonalds or Levi's Jeans is likely to be much more successful than anything American shoppers will ever be able to achieve. And it will hurt the US where people like you least like it, because apart from the negligible economic effects they will be seen as a political slap in the face.
Let's face it: the US may be right in their battle against terrorism and other enemies, but hardly anywhere in the world are they perceived as "the good guy", even in matters which are much closer to the hearts and minds of people in US and elsewhere.
Take for instance that other side of the globalisation coin, the global drug trade. How do poor farmers in Northern Thailand feel when their opium crops are just destroyed without creating other more acceptable opportunities for them? Do you think they are happy with the fact that they have been picked to be removed from the drug traders' shopping list and that the opium now comes from Afghanistan?
Or look at the never ending so-called anti-American outbreaks in South Korea: Two girls are run over by a US military vehicle, and the perpetrators are not dealt with in a Korean court, but in a US military court. You think that helps destroy the general feeling of US-arrogance? Just imagine this scenario: a German (NATO!!!)soldier on duty in the US runs over two kids in Mississippi. All that happens to him is that he is ushered away into a German military court, and the local people will never hear of him again.
Finally I think it is unbecoming of US citizens to talk about "Germans" and "French": is Mr Rumsfeld not German? His name sounds German or Dutch. Even the name Bush could be German or Dutch.
