I’m no longer counting the number of nights this rioting has gone on in France. The numbers no longer matter. The point has been made. It can go on for as many nights as they want, and it can go on anywhere in France. Talk has it that it can erupt anywhere in Europe, at any time, and, to repeat myself, last as long as the rioters want it to last. This needs to be said just to make the point about who really has control.
Bellmont Club has both sound thoughts on what’s going on in France, and some good links. For example, he links to Paul Belien, who explains the Ottoman Empire’s "millet" system, what that has to do with the current predicament of France, and to the fact that Sarkozy (being a child of immigrant parents) is the only one that understand all this. I’m tempted to quote the whole 600 word essay, entitled "The Fall of France," but just click on his name.
Here is a long article that Belien links to on Sarkozy by Marc Perelman, from the July, 2005, issue of Foreign Policy. But David Warren is not impressed by either de Villepin or Sarkozy. He prefers to understand the turmoil very clearly in the light of Charles Martel’s victory at
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With Pure Heart
Got no father and no mother
No kisses and no lover
No home country and no god
No cradle and no tomb
Last three days got naught to eat
Not a lot and not a bit
Twenty years are all my power
Now I’m lookin’ for a buyer
And if that has no appeal
Let the devil have the deal
With a pure heart I will plunder
If needed be, I will murder
I’ll get caught and I’ll get gallowed
Then with bless’d earth I get covered
Deadly grass will spring and rise
From my heart, so pure and nice
With Pure Heart
Last three days got naught to eat
Not a lot and not a bit
Twenty years are all my power
Now I’m lookin’ for a buyer
And if that has no appeal
Let the devil have the deal
With a pure heart I will plunder
If needed be, I will murder
I’ll get caught and I’ll get gallowed
Then with bless’d earth I get covered
Deadly grass will spring and rise
From my heart, so pure and nice
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