Today writer Roger L. Simon posted:The France of the Mind Goes Up in Smoke.
I grew up with the most romantic view of France - Sartre, Piaf, Jean Renoir, the Resistance. Then it was Truffaut, Godard, Serge Gainsbourg.Millions of Americans are joining Simon in casting away romantic views of France and the French. That's a good thing. Americans becoming more realistic about France will in the long run benefit both France and America.
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Now the country itself seems defunct, its economic system a mess, its ability to assimilate immigrants (partly through its own fault and partly through the tribal religious primitivism of the immigrants themselves) practically non-existent. Its politicians seem a collection of pompous aristos and equally pompous leftists.
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And yet France is magnificent and we should all be sad, sadder still that the violence is metastasizing to Belgium and who knows where else?
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I'll say more about that soon.
Right now, I'm like most of you: Fingers crossed for France.
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