Worth Noting:

From the June 19th issue of the Weekly Standard: France has a neocon movement, embodied by the "Cercle de l'Oratoire", a

group of dissenters from the weird ideology now dominant among a French elite that hates America more than it hates Islamofascism.

Their circle has grown considerably since its inception after 9/11, and many are "classical" neocons, that is to say former leftists; neoconservatives are, as Irving Kristol quipped, "liberals mugged by reality." Now their writings and thoughts have found a new form in Le Meilleur des mondes, a journal of neoconservative French thought. Years ago, I perused "The Neoconservative Reader" (or I think that was the title); included were essays by leading European neocons, but I don't remember any Frenchmen included there. I guess that's changed, indeed I think a form of international sanity is slowly dawning in Europe as they begin to fully comprehend the threat posed by Iran and North Korea.