Monday, April 10, 2006

Big surprise: France caves

Staying entirely in-character, the French government has caved in to trade union and student protestors regarding the controversial CPE Employment Contract Law.

Is anyone really surprised by this? The French sense of entitlement is truly a force of nature.

Where does it end for this once-proud, now-third-tier-and-sliding-fast country? A mild attempt to spark the economy and get the nation's youth on payrolls and off the streets has been blocked so completely and so violently that nothing like it will ever be proposed again. What can the government possibly do now, besides continuing to grow the welfare state?

If I were a planner for AQ or any other radical movement that thrives among a disaffected, already-conditioned-to-street-protest-and-violence, near-hopeless population, I'd be pulling up stakes from tired dumps like Somalia and heading for the jihad-ready streets of Paris, baby. Get ready for terms like "Marseilles mullahs", "Liberation Army of Lorraine", "Flanders Fedayeen", and other catchy team names, not to mention a whole new definition of "French Roast". Go git 'em, boys.

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