"And, unfortunately, it may take steps that would make Rwanda look like a Chucky Cheese birthday party"
The rioters will get tired before that happens.
Also, there are many arrests being made each night. There is only a certain quotient of young angry men willing to torch cars. As they are arrested, the remaining willing groups will be reduced.
In all due respect, your paradigm might have a faulty foundation. You have presumed the riots are unrelated to Islam. If you are incorrect, the 5-6 million muslims in France could produce an easy army of 500-600 thousand hardliners.
This whole thing pivots on one point...what is at the bottom of it? When a man concludes he knows and needs no new info...his growth has stopped. He is dead intellectually.
Open your mind. Chirac and Villepin are opening theirs...and I imagine it is quite painful.