I have to fight the temptation of enjoying this.
Don't enjoy it. As much as we may believe that France deserves this or contributed to some of the root causes, it is not a good thing that muslims are rioting in a western democracy and getting away with it.
Imagine Christian riots in Saudi Arabia for 12 days that the authorities couldn't control.
I have to fight the temptation of enjoying this.
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Enjoy is probably not the word I would use to describe how this makes me (feel), but the thinking part of me concluded a couple days ago this is the monster global equivalent of Cindy Sheehan going off on her jew-bashing rant.
It is a massive, hugely recognized indication that something whose entire existence centered on opposing whatever America does which is right - is STOOPID.
When GWB stood up, grabbed a bullhorn and swore the people who knocked down those buildings would hear from us soon - France got in the way, complained and demanded accommodation with the very people who are now burning their country down.
Now the burning is moving to the other "old Europe" countries which so eagerly lined up next to sister Chirac. It is the public humiliation of Cindy Sheehan, on giant scale, playing out in the realm of geopolitics.