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From Amir Taheri, editor of the French quarterly "Politique internationale," in the New York Post:
President Jacques Chirac and Premier de Villepin are especially sore [re: the riots] because they had believed that their opposition to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 would give France a heroic image in the Muslim community.
That illusion has now been shattered — and the Chirac administration, already passing through a deepening political crisis, appears to be clueless about how to cope with what the Parisian daily France Soir has called a "ticking time bomb."
It is now clear that a good portion of France's Muslims not only refuse to assimilate into "the superior French culture," but firmly believe that Islam offers the highest forms of life to which all mankind should aspire.
Would the riots be taking place if France had mobilized military strength on behalf of freedom and Democracy in Iraq?
Did the attempted appeasement by France of the Islamofascists merely demonstrate the weakness of that country?
It is likely that the answers to these questions would indicate the error of France's policy of attempted appeasement of the Islamofascists.
#2That's a great point, Michael. Expulsion of Islamofascists could avoid a European civil war.
When I was a naive teenager I believed that the military and force would never bring peace to any country or people. I believed that appeasement and negotiations were the only way to conduct foreign policy. Looking back now I realize how wrong I was. What people don’t seem to understand is that on one can negotiate with evil. Unfortunately, the Arab world only understands force, and its force that Israel must use in order to protect its citizens. The sooner the French come to the conclusion the sooner they might get a handle on these riots. A final thought to drive my point home. Europe offered Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler, and it ended up fighting a world war.