Bloodless Coup

Paris is Burning

I realize this isn't really new news to anyone who reads the papers, but it looks like twenty plus years of French immigration policy is, literally, going up in smoke.

At the moment, this is merely interesting (though, of course, bad for France). However, given the extent of the violence (according to the NYT story, all major French cities are experiencing this, and it has spread to Belgium) and the inability of the government to stop it (and, perhaps, the inability of the government to even attempt to stop it: they are only now having "crisis meetings", and this is the eleventh straight day of anarchy), this could be very significant. The next few days will tell.