Chirac Says Riots Reveal Identity Crisis

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

[COUNTrecount]

"These events testify to a profound malaise ... . This is a crisis of direction, a crisis of reference points, it is a crisis of identity," he said. "We will respond by being firm, being just and being faithful to the values of France."

[Convert from ECUSA]

[popdonnelly]

I'm sure the Germans who became Nazis had a "crisis of identity", too. And what about Stalin?

[Taggart_D]

8000 cars burned and he's worried about tourism...

So like when are the car owners going to ban together and start rioting in the streets?

[strategofr]

"Does anyone have the feeling that, thanks to the French riots, the age of official multiculturalism may be over?"

Excellent point. But really, what will be the outcome of the riots? France has no jobs to offer, never will.

What can they offer but more concessions to Arab culture?

It is in America that the French riots pose a problem for the Left, because Americans have an alternative to "the French way"---the Republicans.

[hinckley buzzard]

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

Right. So get them a bunch of therapists and the problem will go away. Sheesh.