Michael Gonzalez says France and Belgium will pay a very high price for feeding the beasts of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism: Lest We Forget. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)

Mr. de Villepin, the pinup boy of diplomacy in “progressive” circles, was not just content to travel the world in an attempt to derail U.S. policy. Reportedly, he also has made instructive comments that make clear “how we got here.” Mr. de Villepin, sources say, last week told members of the National Assembly that “hawks” in the U.S. administration are “in the hands of [Ariel] Sharon.” According to the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine, he went so far as to attack a “pro-Zionist” lobby made up of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, White House staffer Elliot Abrams and Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, all Jews.

But it’s not just a juif thing. Mr. de Villepin—who claims in his book “The Cry of the Gargoyle” to be a fan of both Machiavelli and Napoleon—never shies from messianic statements. He told legislators that the fight over Iraq was actually one against “Anglo-Saxon liberalism,” an Assembly member told me.

But indignant reactions are now being heard. An editorial on Radio France Internationale noticed that the phrase “the Anglo-American forces,” constantly used instead of “coalition forces,” is borrowed straight from Vichy propaganda. In her own j’accuse for Le Figaro, Ms. Lepage said that to the errors of the media and the leaders, “one can add the pacifist demonstrations, which have nothing peaceful about them.” She could “bear witness to the fact that these demonstrations are far from gatherings of real defenders of the rights of man or of peace. These are hordes orchestrated by the security services of Islamicist groups which … shout extremely violent slogans in which racial and anti-Semitic hatred is expressed without the least taboo.”