Jacques Carter

Fox News:

President Jacques Chirac said Monday that more than two weeks of violence in the poor suburbs of France is the sign of a "profound malaise" and he ordered new measures to reach out to troubled youths and fight the discrimination believed to be at the root of it.

I wonder if the French are going to take the serious steps of freeing up their economic system to overcome the malaise? I suspect that they're going to look right past the systemic malaise and attempt to patch up the "dissaffected youth malaise" by throwing government Euros at the problem. Building youth centers, etc...

Are they going to be integrating the native born Muslim youth population?

Likely not.

Things are improving nevertheless.

After nearly two weeks of rioting France, only 270 cars were torched last night. Compared to the nearly 1,400 at the riot's peak, so it's hard to discount the progress in the French quagmire.

Footnote: President Carter never actually used the word malaise in his speech, but history has labelled it as "the malaise speech."

Let Them Eat Cake Posted by AlexC at November 15, 2005 6:00 PM