I think I'm going to get myself a bumper sticker that states "my leader is less inept than YOUR leader". Why? Well, apparently Jacques Chirac has enacted a curfew, hoping it will bring an end to rioting that has neared the two week mark and that has spread to over 300 French cities, and is apparently spreading to Germany and Belgium.

From reports I have heard, however, French police will not go into the neighborhoods where the rioting is taking place. This leaves it to the French military, which has, umm, questionable ability at best. This means that any curfew is likely to be ineffective as even the best equipped military is unlikely to fight a war on 300 different fronts (Just a personal guess, but I'm guessing these riots wouldn't have lasted out the first weekend if it wasn't for France's ridiculously restrictive gun control laws...but I digress).

So, basically, Chirac is telling the rioters to "go home". Yeah, that'll work, Jacques. These folks have shown they respect the rule of law (rolling eyes).

My money's on France making a call to the White House in a couple weeks asking us to bail them out of their stupid messes for the third time in the last century (first, WW2, second, Vietnam, third....NOW!). Any takers?