They're back! Just when you thought it was safe to start calling "freedom fries" French fries once more, the anti-Gallic thought police are back on the job, avidly pursuing those "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." The American right's recurrent infatuation with French bashing, quiescent for a time after the Iraq invasion, has returned with a vengeance. This time, it has an intellectual twist. In bookstores now are at least two accounts of our purportedly harmful interactions with France over the years, both serving to denigrate the historic French-American friendship. The titles tell it all. There is "The French Betrayal of America" by...