[Fred Nerks]

France's Brain Drain (snip)

It’s no wonder that many French scientists are heading for greener pastures outside of France. Their destination of choice is the United States, where a talented researcher can work on the cutting edge of his chosen discipline, have more autonomy and earn three times or more what he could back home. Japan, Canada and Ireland are also popular destinations.

All of this was a problem before the current riots started. As the unrest in France continues to spin out of control, the slow trickle of scientist émigrés promises to turn into a flood, robbing France of people it can least afford to lose.

It would be sad indeed if the homeland of René Descartes, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur became a scientific backwater. There are still many pockets of excellence in the French scientific establishment, especially in the life sciences. But the handwriting is on the wall. Unless and until France gets a grip on its social problems, it will continue to fall behind its neighbors as well as the United States.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4975

[BulletBobCo]

[TheGeezer]

France has a history of anti-Semitism. Its inefficient police force doubled the number of Jews the Nazis demand it turn over to them for murder in concentration camps in WWII. It did not adopt an anti-Israel foreign policy merely to oppose the U.S or to gain an advantage in oil prices. France hates Jews.

[etradervic]

France knowingly ... pulling into its midst a Trojan horse and potentially touching off a great migration not altogether unlike the one that destroyed Rome. It's not too late for France to offset this trend.

Excellent historical perspective. Spain also made a similar blunder as well in the 8th century.
I disagree with the conclusion however. I believe that it is too late for France. The French do not have the vision or the stomach to take back their nation. France has become and will remain a hostage to terror.

[ConservativeChinese]

"a resolute Jacques Chirac immediately got down to the business of restoring France's lost glory"

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Please tell me this is a joke.
To restore a "lost glory" you need to lost a glory in the first place. The problem is France never had any glories, unless you consider surrendering a glory.

[Billthedrill]

Surely, such soul searching is welcome, indeed long overdue, and if France emerges from this trauma a bit more humble in its attitude toward its own Arabs on the one hand, and less pontificating toward Israel on the other, no one in Jerusalem should be disappointed.

That isn't likely. What appears to be the evolving French stance is conciliation toward the thugs who are torching cars in their cities and a desperate search for a scapegoat - no, Bush will not do this time, and so who shall it be? The Jews are available. The Jews are always available. Anyone in Israel who thinks that this humiliation of the French government will lend them toward sympathy for a fellow victim does not know the French.

I hope I'm wrong about this and if I am I'll apologize publicly. I wish I were wrong about this.

[Southack]

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