[G.Mason]

"The French can respond in three ways.

They can feel guilty and appease the rioters with prerogatives and the “massive investment plan” some are demanding.

Or they can heave a sigh of relief when it ends and, as they did after earlier crises, return to business as usual.

Or they can understand this as the opening salvo in a would-be revolution and take the difficult steps to undo the negligence and indulgence of past decades."

Okay, you FR geniuses ... Let's hear you define exactly what Pearl's third response is suppose to mean, and just how it differs from his first.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

I think it means something like "The Franco-Muslims are suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectations." Or some such gibberish.

[pgyanke]

The first is capitulation. The last is a return to sanity and a reversal of the premise:

These issues include a decline of Christian faith and the attendant demographic collapse; a cradle-to-grave welfare system that lures immigrants even as it saps long-term economic viability; an alienation from historic customs in favor of lifestyle experimentation and vapid multiculturalism; an inability to control borders or assimilate immigrants; a pattern of criminality that finds European cities far more violent than American ones; and a surge in Islam and radical Islam.

[Jimmy Valentine]

They can call in the Foreign Legion from Alsace, put the country under martial law, expel any rioter caught to what ever African crap hole they or their parents (expel the parents too) came from, and restrict immigration.

they can also cut social spending and cut taxes, revitalizing their economy.

Keep an eye out for "tyhe man on a white horse"; France is about ready.

[dsc]

"Okay, you FR geniuses ... Let's hear you define exactly what Pearl's third response is suppose to mean, and just how it differs from his first."

To me it means (a) drastically slashing welfare; (b) elimination of immigration of mooselimbs; (c) mass deportations; and (d) a shoot-to-kill policy WRT rioters, combined with international cooperation on finding and killing terrorists and especially ringleaders.