PHONY WAR?

The NYT and WPost are mouthing the same tiresome economic and victimization mantras most mini-marxist socialism-lite minders recite to blame everything on institutions and absolve individuals from any responsibility. I continue to read Le Monde and the French press, and lived several years in France and from my experience, it is clear that the elitist dirigiste left-wing political class is now scheming to undercut Minister of Interior Sarkozy.

Sarkozy is guilty of calling for law and order without the kowtowing and empty bromides the social/political mandarinate in Paris demands toward the poor disadvantaged arsonists. Perhaps his naming them "racaille" ["scum"] was over the top, although probably broadly accurate.

"Dialogue" bleats the Minister of Social Cohesion.

Yeah, stopping the Germans in 1940 with dialogue [remember the ???Phony War?] didn???t work, but the French always pretend to know better.

I can imagine the brilliantined stick-insect de Villepin doing a good imitation of Christopher Walken's "continental" as he tries to craft appeasement strategies with the ailing charlatan Chirac. These two want to exclude the half-Jewish Sarkozy from their effete parleys as much as possible. They fingerpoint the blame on Sarkozy for lack of deference to the social status of the arsonists.

Meantime, the International Left commentariat is struggling to control the narrative. These social engineers in Brussels want to replicatethe leftist social & economic catastrophe that produces 10% unemployment in France and Germany all across Europe. Francophiles in the USA [Kerry comes to mind] don't want these Franco-inspired social planners backed into a corner.

The normally balanced Economist, for instance, tries to bury the story of the French fire-bombings on page 54-55 in today???s edition. The Economist, which should have known better, had a cover two months ago with ???America???s Shame??? a few days after the dykes broke and public services were caught flatfooted.

These riots have been going on TEN DAYS, unlike the Watts or ???92 LA riots when the Pompous Socialist Mitterrand sniffed that LA could not happen in France ???BECAUSE OF OUR SOCIAL PROTECTIONS.???

Well, these hopped-up little Muslim druggies are riding their bikes all of France and torching as they gleefully go.

Tsk-tsks from pursed lips aren???t going to stop them.

So much for the French social model.

The best MSM comment so far is from Mark Steyn in the Sun-Times who correctly describes France as the flashpoint for the Eurabian Civil War. He also deftly points out the decades-long assaults on Jewish stores and businesses in France by Arabs as a reflection of the deep anti-Semitism of the French citoyen.

The real victims besides the hapless French may be the Turks, who now see their aspirations for EU membership going up in flames.

But the Europeans are always the last to get the REAL message, which consists of realizing that they have spawned a mini-intifada through their inability to assimilate. I can imagine Al-Qaeda franchise outlets springing up all across Europe aided by the Internet just as I write this.

We in America cannot gloat, because clots of indigestible unassimilable immigrants are now forming across our own civic landscape..

Ironically, the half-Jewish Sarkozy may benefit in the end from the simmering anti-Semitism deep in the French psyche. Jean-Marie Le Pen's myriads of chauvinists may decide for the tough second-generation Sarkozy over the left's alternative of Sarkozy can maneuver into the Presidential race two years from now.

"A bon chat, bon rat," goes the old French saying.