[Dane]

Malaise rampant in the liberal world. It's a good thing, helped bring to the world stage, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

Amazing the above is from the BBC, and they can't blame GW Bush.

[ncountylee]

Malaise? Send the expert - Carter.

[coloradan]

Please stop the rioting at once! Or we shall ask you pretty please tomorrow!! And pretty please with a cherry on top on Wednesday!!

[AntiGuv]

...their toughness has only made things worse.

Toughness??

[mlc9852]

"...though of course if he had supported President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair then, he would be in even greater trouble now."

Somehow I doubt it. I must admit to taking some perverse pleasure from all this bad news for Chirac.

[RegulatorCountry]

"But, the hypnosis of materialism has co-opted much of this critical sectors' energy, a materialism that the protestors are both lured to and object to"

Uh oh, dey done been hipmotize.

[meandog]

Chirac must control the rioters or his image will be fatally damaged...

WILL BE????

[Capt. Tom]

France is going to have to change towards its unwilling, often unwelcome young second-generation population, and accommodate them better.

It is not enough to demand that these people drop their sense of themselves and fit in with the way France has traditionally ordered its affairs.

This author is a classic example of a "useful idiot" - Tom

[twas]

Interestingly, just a couple years ago I read the French novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail because someone pointed out to me that it was "prophetic".

He was right.

[Crawdad]

Centre-right?

[The Electrician]

See earlier thread for this article at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517318/posts

[tflabo]

ATTENTION: To all you socialist, liberal , social justice at any cost crowd. Take notice of this French unraveling toward these immigrant thugs... Appeasement and coddling of these dysfunctional muslim neanderthals has brought these violent results. Play with deadly snakes and risk getting bit. WAKE UP wussie French....repent of your welfare socialistic state of delusions.

[Buffettfan]

IMHO, the 5 million muzzies inside of France are the main reason that France did not back us on the Iraq war. In short, they were afraid that that if they backed the US, that the muzzies would burn France to the ground. Looks like France only bought itself a measley 2 years. They could have spent that time getting ready for the intafada that they are now fighting. The sick twisted socialist European mind will never learn.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill - (1874 - 1965)

[colorado tanker]

It's time for the "front-line" states of the U.S., Britain, Germany and Italy, along with the U.N., of course, to put pressure on France to recognize the legitimate aspirations of the Muslim people. War is not the answer. The French must negotiate. Of course, the French will have to end the "occupation" of the Muslim suburbs and give them their own state. The French must change from the unjust "French model" economy that has left so many Muslims in poverty and unemployed to the British and American model. Chirac is a maniacal cowboy who must stop acting unilaterally and must listen to the international community. Perhaps Jimmy Carter could mediate to bring about a "just peace."

(I'm enjoying this way more than I should.)

[VRWCTexan]

A little "old news" from Time Mag. in Sept 2001 - i.e. for those few that continue to believe this is just all about "poverty"....


Time: Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from France

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...176139,00.html

In the early 1990s, Islamist radicals found a pool of willing recruits in the cauldrons of youthful rage found in the impoverished suburban ghettoes that house many of France's 5 million people of Arab origin.

The point of connection between the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles and Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria.

There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground — where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike.

The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), had been founded by men who'd fought as volunteers alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan's anti-Soviet 'jihad.'

When that war ended with the Soviet withdrawal, the men moved into France and began recruiting young thugs and exploiting their larcenous talents to raise money and build an infrastructure to attack France for its support of the Algerian government.

A far-reaching law

Operatives recruited in France helped staged a series of bombing attacks during 1995 that left eight dead and around 150 wounded….

[Thombo2]

"Violence has a kind of virtue."What a choice quote.Spoken like a true revolutionary/socialist.Here's another good one,"France is going to have to....accomodate them(muslims)better."aka appeasement.Sound familiar?

[jveritas]

Amazing the above is from the BBC, and they can't blame GW Bush.

Oh do not be so sure Dane. The defeated Left will always find a way to blame Bush for all the world’s problems. They already have started to savage Sarkozy and blame him for taking a tough stands on the muslim rioters in order to appease the French Conservatives if there is something like that.

[etradervic]

Thanks to the Revolution, violence even has a kind of virtue which it simply does not possess in a country like Britain. When government becomes incapable of change, the crowds in the streets have to do the changing for themselves.

Well good luck with that. I have a feeling that this group could easily be persuaded to reinstitute the guillotine.

[Steve_Seattle]

I remember when Airbus launched its new jumbo jet a few months ago, the local liberal papers were crowing about how great France is, hou great the EU is, etc., and how we need to learn from them and be more like them.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Amazing the above is from the BBC, and they can't blame GW Bush."

But they are not blaming the rioters, either. They are defending the rioters and blaming the French government for its "insensitivity."

[RJL]

Yet another veiled attack on Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy is ever so slightly to the right of Chiraq and he is likely to be the next French President. That has the hard left running scared all through Europe.