RE: Leaders Fiddle As France Burns (12th Night)
They refuse to employ deadly force in sufficient quantity and breadth to deal with the issue. There is, sadly, a rationale. The current ruling "coalition" need to retain the support of the radical pro-PLO types in order to stay in power. In their calculus, the need to keep the far Right from having a bully pulpit without loosing the freaks. Of course, I would embrace the far Right and steer them into a slightly more effective stance (for example, getting them to lose the more extreme xenophibic views they have) and drop the freaks. Let the freaks flop around limply. But Chirac and Co. lack the courage and sense to do this. Plus, they are themselves haters of the far Right. What a sad state of affairs.
Sad, but necessary. This is going propel the conservatives in France into power.