[Knitting A Conundrum]

Reaping the whirlwind, but I still feel for those who believed their own propaganda about things (and remember that when you are convinced that something is what you name it, no matter what the reality is), and are now getting a taste of the difference between want-it-to-be-one-way and the-way-it-really-is.

[No Blue States]

Before this is over the same silent protesters may be burning effigies of Chirac and his car. By then I hope they will have learned appeasement doesnt work.

[Allen H]

That really kinda is the crux of it isn't it? Just because someone wants something to be a certain way, that doesn't make it so. All the wanting and wishing and desiring for something to be a certain way, doesn't cut it. You have to actually get your hands dirty, do the hard work, the ugly chores, and DO IT. The french haven't done that. They thought that they could import masses of muslims and they would just bow at their frenchie french greatness, kneeling and scraping at their tables, taking the crumbs the french peopel gave them, and being thankful for it, like oliver, aking "please sir, may I have another", assuming that since they are appeasists and have put so much effort into placating islamist extremism for so many years, and siding with the palestinian squatters and terrorists for over 50 years, that it would get them brownie points with all things muslim. Well, didn't work. french wrong. American's right.

I can almost hear President Reagan, God rest his great soul, up with the Angels, saying "HA! Show you pierre! Won't let me fly bombers over your precious soil huh? This is what you get!".