I pray that it doesn't escalate beyond that....
True enough, ohio. You have to wonder how soon before just torching vehicles really becomes the same old same old for the rioters and they have to escalate it.
" just torching vehicles really becomes the same old same old for the rioters and they have to escalate it."
Good point. Kind of a drug analogy.
Frenchie indecision and inaction are now, after 11 nights, sending all the wrong signals, globally. First, it is telling Al Quida that French suburbs are even more primed for more serious ventures than they ever suspected. Second, it is telling similar suburbs across Europe, already Denmark, I don't think Italy (because the Guidos won't put up with this), but soon in many other places, that they cannot expect significant EARLY retaliation. So they have some days grace to do pretty much whatever they want whenever they want.
Many have been noting, and correctly: If Bush acted in anything like this way, European elites and decision-makers would be all over him. The Dems, of course, would promote more striden welfarism as they simply say - as always - that whatever Bush is doing is wrong.
Even if Monday night is quiet, which I doubt, the messages above have been sent. Only a ferocious crackdown would begin to send a very different message, and we have alreadyh seen that Frenchie is hardly going to take this turn at any time.