[hummingbird]

Hey HB...I am a behavioral sciences nut.

"Just as I suspected!"

Do ya' think Sarkozy could build enough of a coalition or police force to put an end to this? Sarkozy is the Interior Minister, right?! Would Chirac be so lame and self-centered as to hand France over, so to speak, to the radical protestors? What about French Foreign Minister? Just as lame as Chirac?

[Dark Skies]

Sarkozy's star has risen appreciably. But I don't know the French system. I know the police (local and national) report to Sarkozy, but Sarkozy is hamstrung by Chirac. I don't know what must happen for a change in approach.

But there is no doubt that capitulation doesn't work. Socialism is dying a quick death in Europe. Soon this influence will hit our shores.

Islam is pushing the world to the right. Nothing wrong with that...until it keeps on going. It kicks aside Sarkozy...and next Le Pen is pushed away. This vacuum is hungrier than that. It wants greater anger...greater hatred. It wants the new Fuhrer.

[RAldrich]

"Would Chirac be so lame and self-centered as to hand France over, so to speak, to the radical protestors? What about French Foreign Minister? Just as lame as Chirac?"

I think all Chirac wants is a quiet life. De Villepin is a poet and novelist, full of grandiose speeches with no substance.

I don't know how much actual power Sarkozy has.

What France has now is paralysis. Maybe a new Napoleon will appear?