How dare you question the resoning capacity of the French! Why in the 20th century alone they made all the right moves, just ask them!

http://www.limitstogrowth.org/index.html

Scroll down to the interview with Lou Dobbs,which is titled
“Lou Dobbs Tonight Transcript Oct. 26 [10/27/06]”

I can’t find any permalinks on the page so you’ll have to go about halfway down.

Lots of information to be had there, including a link to a 2003 piece by Stanley Crouch, of all people calling for a moratorium on all Muslim immigration for ten years…

I read a couple of very good articles in No Pasaran about France awhile ago, but this was when I was reading Melannie Phillips at the outset of the French riots.

Here is an interesting statistical breakdown of… paris.

Link

How are we to know the full extent of corruption in the French justice system without an accurate, verifiable record of the trial?

I had thought the purpose and effectiveness of the wall, before it was built, and the results of its partial building, was so obvious that nobody could miss it.

That being the case, objections could only have been based on the presumption that inconveniencing terrorists in their attempts to kill Jews was immoral.

Now we find there were, indeed, people so stupid as to not know what a wall is for, and so stupid as to miss the results of the partial building.

As to where the wall is to be built;
I don’t think the Israelis owe the terrorists and their supporters much at all, much less a less efficient defensive position because somebody claims a cabbage patch would be cut in half.

By this time, the purpose and attitude of the Palestinian population is well-enough known that there’s no longer any point in pretending this is about anything but the long-running attempts to kill Jews and destroy Israel.

Any reasons are excuses. If they did not exist, others would be found. If they are remedied, others would be found.
If none existed, sufficient would be made up.

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I think you might be acknowledging the limits of human ‘reason,’ whether in politics or in other human pursuits. Certainly the French seem to have been reason’s chief proponent for several centuries.

Is that reason always reasonable?

I wonder how it has served the French, particularly in the 20c?

neo is giving us some insights..

One wonders what belief powered those Europeans who resisted the first Islamic assault?

The legend of Roland is certainly not consistent with today’s French culture.

Islam, I know in part, once held Sicily, and most of Spain, and, apparently, even the Eternal City for a period.

One of my English folk tales from the 10th century tells of the Saracens overwhelming a Cornish kingdom along the shores of Southern Britain.

The Saracens were devils who massacred innocent women and childen, even then.