The perpetrators must be found, held accountable and condemned with the full severity of the law.
Does anyone think that terrorists, racists, Islamofascists, anti-semites, or any other violent scum-of-the-earth will pay any attention whatsoever to a clown like Chirac?
What's he going to do? Tell them that this time he's really, really horrified...and if they do it again he's really...I mean really...going to hold them accountable! I mean it!
American and European leftists--and notably their spokespersons in the American "mainstream newsmedia" (a.k.a. "The Democrat Propaganda Machine")--love to criticize President Bush and his handling of the War on Terror. However, his is the only language that this violent scum understands or will respond to.
Keep decadent fools like Chirac in power, and elect their counterparts, like Kerry, in America, and the violent scum will intensify their terror, and their evil will proliferate.
It's like predicting that winter will follow autumn. It doesn't take any special talent--merely the ability to add two plus two--and to avoid denial, the most dangerous thing in the world.
I keep thinking of an article I read in Vanity Fair last year; about the sephardic jewish parisian retired police detective-turned-bandleader who started his own unoffical organization to keep track of anti-semitic incidents and try to get the authorities involved. I wish I could remember the names, date and title but the main subject of the article was the varied responses to the crisis by french jews (not a monolithic entity by any means). According to the jewish ex-cop the french authorities go to obscene lengths not to list various assaults, vandalisms, arsons, etc. as "anti-semitic" so their official statistics are of little value.
I said it before, but if Bush really wants to humiliate Chiraq (and benefit the U.S.) he should set up a special expanded immigration quota for french jews.