The Parisian Powder Keg

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Sunday November 06, 2005 19:32 by Righteous Pragmatist

Where's Charles Martel when Rene needs him?

Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up. By believed by 2010 we would be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday's edition of the Guardian reported in London: ''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''

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