[quesney]

Short, but sweet...and, I think, hammer-worthy.

[thoughtomator]

The question is how do you give a population with a 7+-child-per-family birthrate a stake in representative government without authoring your childrens' destruction?

[HangnJudge]

Taking of the Bastille




Islam has no respect for any belief but it's own
Islam has no respect for any writings but those derived from Mohammad
Islam will kill those who renounce Mohammad
Their world view is frozen into the 7th century

Identify those who propagate hate speech in Islam
Arrest, Deport, or Imprison
Do not reinforce or reward violent behavior, ever

[CommandoFrank]

Ironically, France has done just about everything it can to undermine this effort by the U.S.

And now they are reaping what they have sown... and I am enjoying watching it! Especially the part about Chirac taking 11 days to make a statement. What a baffoon!

[goldstategop]

The point is the Muslims in France have never assimilated. Napoleon offered the Jews the same bargain and they have been loyal subjects despite bouts of official anti-Semitism. The Algerian Jews, in contrast to the Muslims, were granted French citizenship by the Cremieux Decree in 1870. Today the French face an insurrection by a hostile Muslim minority that is neither loyal to the French state nor wants better treatment. Whether they can disabuse this minority of the notion that violence can get them what it wants is the unanswered question of the century.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Mike Darancette]

I heard one commentator suggest that universal conscription is the best method of acculturation.

[Stellar Dendrite]

this happened because france's support for the iraq war. oh wait.....

[Sthitch]

There was a time when the French did a wonderful job battling Islam's incursion into Europe. Now they sit by and watch their country and Europe become overrun by the crescent bearing hoards.

Originally, I thought (or maybe hoped) that the French might have been allowing the riots to continue to foster discontent in the country against the current immigration situation. From what I can tell now, is that Chirac, and Villipan have allowed it to get out of control just so that they can make Sarkozy look incompetent.

[msnimje]

To credit the author, this was written by Paul Mirengoff of Powerline.

[paul51]

France has done just about everything it can to undermine this effort by the U.S.

Well then, there you go.

[austinaero]

"The best hope may be that the U.S. succeeds in its efforts to transform the Middle East to the point that Muslims perceive themselves as having a stake in the democratic project (as American blacks did) and in the global economy."

This, I gotta disagree with. They don't want a "stake" - they want total control and total domination and nothing less, IMHO.

[bnelson44]

Their objective is to transform France into an Islamic state

What? Who in France said that?

[dalereed]

We should have let the Germans have them 60 years ago.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"Heaven help the French; they can't help themselves"

Why not Allah? /s

[Cobra64]

"Heaven help the French; they can't help themselves"

Well, The United States did; TWICE.

I guess we were not up to the task. /sarc

[GOPJ]

The best hope may be that the U.S. succeeds in its efforts to transform the Middle East to the point that Muslims perceive themselves as having a stake in the democratic project (as American blacks did) and in the global economy. Ironically, France has done just about everything it can to undermine this effort by the U.S.

A hard truth...

[claudiustg]

The only vision of the future that these thugs have is of themselves walking around with their chests puffed out while everyone cowers in fear. It is a pure vision of thugdom. The only practical way to deal with the situation is to put large numbers of them in jail for long periods of time.

[TaxesR2High]

Is it safe to say that there have been more cars destroyed in France than in Iraq?

[quantim]

We had our race riots in the late 1960s

That's a lie.  It was the demon seed that we call liberalism.

[fella]

France's situation may not be hopeless, but it's not easy to see the way out.

Allow me to point the way out....

1. Lock and load.

2. Push the safety to the off position.

3. Make sure of the target and that the background is clear.

4. Close one eye and line the sights up with the target adjusting for distance and windage.

5. Take a breathe and hold it.

6. Then Squeeeeze the trigger, do not jerk or pull it but Squeeeeeeze the trigger.

This is a 6 step plan for ending riots and other dangerous situations.