[TheCrusader]

"Chirac — said France must instill values and hope in the "sons and daughters of the Republic" growing up in the poor, largely immigrant suburbs ringing French cities."

This can't be so, because these are mostly muslims he's talking about. We are told they are people of "one of the great religions of the world", they belong to "the religion of peace". They are godly people whose hope is in allah, not in the world. How then, Mr. Chirac, are a nation of Western 'infidels' going to "instill values and hope" in such paragons of religious virtue? Unfortunately, it is they who are teaching Mr. Chirac and the French their own 'values'; the values of terrorism and intimidation, which work wonders against weak nations with weak leaders.

The feeling I get from Mr. Chirac's speech is similar to how I feel when our own liberal Democrats talk to the 'minority' community in America; they exude a condescending, pompous superiority as they convince them they are dependent upon government.

[goldstategop]

The point Chiraq overlooks is the immigrants do not want to become French, do not want to become Frenchmen and owe no loyalty to France. How the French government will instill national values in an entire population that rejects them is the $64,000 question of the century. Its not like it cared about them before. Oh that and it took three weeks of rioting to get the elites to pay attention to France's real problems. They're not problems a bunch of government programs will fix.

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