So how about them French?
What war on terror?
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling just a little bit of schadenfreude right now. Twelve days and counting, and now it's spread to over 300 cities, and beyond France's borders. If this goes on, it could have even larger effects than 9/11 did here in the states. There are five million muslims in France. France will have to act very deftly - on the one hand, they can't afford to piss off all the muslims. On the other hand, they can't afford to be perceived as capitulating or appeasing the muslims - it would both incite them, and the 20% of the electorate that voted for le Pen in the last election.
Maybe inviting all of those Algerians in, and then pushing them off into ghettoes wasn't really the best idea after all.
[wik] Useful link round-up at the Blogs of War, and especially clever commentary here, here and here.
[alsø wik] Oh, and here, where I got most of the links above. Hit Drudge or google news for the updates, obviously. I'm going to take a break from other things and look at Strategypage.
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Maybe the liberals in Europe
Maybe the liberals in Europe can figure out how to integrate millions of Muslims.
If not, the Muslims there may encounter an older style European – the kind that used to wear lightning bolts on their lapels. I don’t think they would enjoy the experience.
France has not authorized the use of Army troops to quell the rioting yet. Sounds like a job for the Charlemagne Division.
I don't know that we'll be
I don't know that we'll be seeing that quite yet. But given the lack of leadership on the part of basically everyone in the French governnment, I think Le Pen must be dancing a jig right now thinking of his chances in the next election.
He may even light up a few
He may even light up a few cars to celebrate.