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Originally posted by bilmore
Partially. Chirac still stands by his main principle, which is "it's our responsibility to welcome them into our society and make them a part of us, and we've fucked that up royally." I saw his weasely utterances for a bit as . . . well, . . . weasely - but really, I've sort of been impressed that he's not called out the army and steamrolled the immigrant cities. He's stuck to his main thesis well. Have to admire that. In the long run, more cars will burn, but I think he leaves a greater chance of repproachement.
I just made up that word, as I can't remember the correct spelling.
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Yes. he apparently mostly believes his own stuff.
I was absolutely shocked that (a) it took 12 days of riots before the local governments were granted emergency powers and (b) that it took the national government to grant those powers.
Their world is different.
S_A_M
P.S. Rapprochement (with some fancy things over a couple letters).
