For a moment, I thought Belmont Club was crediting Instapundit with single-handedly damaging France's foreign relations:

France appears to be less influential than it once was even in Africa (thanks to Instapundit).

I was impressed, until a more careful second reading of the sentence in context showed that he meant "hat tip to Instapundit", and was thanking him for the information, not the lessening of French influence.