Here’s an interesting article on the battle over the EU constitution from the June 3 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Toward the end of the article, Robert Jackson discusses a just published pamphlet in which France’s new prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, makes some rather indiscreet remarks about his ambitions for French foreign policy. Villepin is open about seeing France more as an opponent than an ally of America. The notion that France should become a power that balances between the Americans and the Chinese is particularly disturbing. The Democrats’ desire to “cooperate” with the United Nations could easily end up making us hostage to Europeans who are actively opposed to America’s interests–not simply in Iraq, but everywhere. Supposedly, Nicolas Sarkozy, a more pro-American politician, is on the inside track to win the French presidency in 2007. But two years is a long time, politics is uncertain, and Villepin is running France now. Americans had best take note of what this fellow really thinks.