Jed's point is that France goes on and on in the UN and in public discourse about how everyone else should be as humanitarian as they are, and yet their people walk by a homeless guy on the street and don't seem to be batting an eyelash.
Texas and the US in general let their actions speak for them, be it for good or ill.*
(I'm not defending or attacking this position, just commenting)
*Ugh. I've been reading too much Tolkien.