Well, the French certainly have a mess on their hands. For 11 nights rioters (mostly youth and minorities - French-born children of Arab and black Africans) have taken to the streets in the suburbs of Paris and across France, setting fire to cars, businesses, homes, and schools. And now they're shooting at police. President Chirac is vowing that order will be restored. [story] Yes, I'm sure it will be, but at what price?Perhaps the French are paying for their snobbish attitude against immigrants. I guess not all of them have been treated as nicely as some of their guests, notably the Ayatollah Khomeini and Yassir Arafat. What a better way for the rioters to show their disdain - by destroying their neighborhoods.
How this will be resolved is anyone's guess, but I fear it may get worse before it gets better. Certainly there will be a lot of arrests. And French have a pretty bad record when it comes to treatment of prisoners. Probably make Abu Gharib look like after-school detention. Maybe they'll bring back the guillotine.
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