Chirac Says Riots Reveal Identity Crisis

AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/14/05 | ELAINE GANLEY - ap

[dr_who_2]

"These events testify to a profound malaise...

He's toast.

[libill]

I certainly hope so. Unfortunately it took a tragedy like this, but if there is any doubt all one has to do is look at the French riots to see that multiculturalism does not work and is very bad. In America for instance the nonsense of putting foreign countries before America like in (country)/American has got to stop. America must always come first.

[TheCrusader]

"Chirac — said France must instill values and hope in the "sons and daughters of the Republic" growing up in the poor, largely immigrant suburbs ringing French cities."

This can't be so, because these are mostly muslims he's talking about. We are told they are people of "one of the great religions of the world", they belong to "the religion of peace". They are godly people whose hope is in allah, not in the world. How then, Mr. Chirac, are a nation of Western 'infidels' going to "instill values and hope" in such paragons of religious virtue? Unfortunately, it is they who are teaching Mr. Chirac and the French their own 'values'; the values of terrorism and intimidation, which work wonders against weak nations with weak leaders.

The feeling I get from Mr. Chirac's speech is similar to how I feel when our own liberal Democrats talk to the 'minority' community in America; they exude a condescending, pompous superiority as they convince them they are dependent upon government.

[Fair Go]

I could't agree more.

[DuncanWaring]

As Winston Churchill said of Neville Chamberlain after Munich:

"He had a choice between dishonor and war. He chose dishonor. Now he shall have war."

[antaresequity]

idiot alert...

[Fred Nerks]

This 'identity crisis' sounds as if it's going to be the new excuse for everything. Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of The Australian newspaper writes;

'...what transforms a young man into a terrorist almost always turns on a crisis of identity...'

OK, so now I'm convinced. Once the terrorists know who they are, they'll stop wanting to kill us.

[Tintin chez les soviets]

[kromike]

Seems to me the time is ripe for the French equivalent of a Ronald Reagan!

Geez, just to look at Chirac, I'm thinking, damn...this dweeb is in charge of a country?

[Southack]

"PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Monday that the unrest in France's poor, largely nonwhite suburbs revealed a "crisis of identity" that the entire nation must heal with firmness and with measures that combat what he called the poison of discrimination. ... The civil unrest is the worst since the student-worker revolts of May 1968..."

No, that explanation ("discrimination") won't cut it. The 1968 riots, you see, were co-ed. Both genders participated.

Today's riots in France are committed by a single gender, a stark contrast to 1968...and a major difference that requires an explanation.

[Fred Nerks]

Hello Tintin, I'm so happy to read your comments on Freerepublic, but sad to see what is happening in our country. I am an Australian, born in Germany, in a small village in Bavaria.

I recently came across THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE

http://www.meforum.org/article/772

You might find this article of interest.

[Ciexyz]

He's eighteen days too late.

[Westlander]

'Chirac, speaking with the flags of France and the European Union behind him..'

Someone please photshop white flags so i can have new wallpaper.

[dighton]

Sacré Bleu!

“There’s always someone who doesn’t get the word.”

[Deo volente]

Separated at birth

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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[Garry Boldwater]

Add this diaper load to the list of Bush's regime change express. It started with Afghanistan then went on to Iraq has just made the rounds through Germany and will pull in to France next year.

Bye bye, dork!

[goldstategop]

A speech that will be compared to Jimmy Carter's 70s "malaise" address. Chiraq in effect, is trying to manage France's decline and not doing too good a job of it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[A CA Guy]

Ah, the religion of peace train!

[goldstategop]

Exactly. Blame the French people for the failures of their government and the decline of their country. Chiraq can't even speak of French greatness. I'd never thought I'd live to see the day went the air when out of the famous French arrogance. So much for the French model, ne c'est pas?

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")