Paris is Burning and Nobody's Noticing.

The big meltdown in France that I've been predicting for some time is finally coming to pass. Mobs of young Muslims are rampaging through the streets of French cities attacking people and burning everything in sight including cars. Targets have included public buses and vehicles in the streets. Yesterday the Rocky Mountain News reported that a crippled old woman walking on crutches was pulled from a public bus outside Paris, doused with gasoline and set on fire.
Reuters is reporting that Islamic radicals (quite probably Al Qaeda) and drug dealing street gangs are organizing the violence. The French government is doing little or nothing to control the violence, the Foreign Legion isn't in the streets and the Gendarmes are standing by and letting the mobs burn property.
My guess is the next stage will be that native French mostly right wing extremists will strike back by attacking the rioters and staging raids on Muslim neighborhoods. Could be the beginning of a civil war remember Yugoslavia. A civil war in a country that has nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Do we want Bin Laden in control of the French nuclear arsenal?
The frightening thing is nobody in the United States seems to be noticing this catastrophe unfolding. There wasn't a single mention of the riots on any of the network Sunday morning chat fests today. Our political class seems oblvious to the coming catastrophe in Europe. What will it take the lynching of an American tourist or a tour bus full of Americans to get us to notice. Or the killing of some famous American Francophile such as Johnny Depp. What do you bet Mouessier Depp just happens to be at his home in Los Angeles right now and is thankful he's a US citizen. My guess is that Depp has quietly flown his children out of France and here to America where they'll be safe in the country he arrogantly attacked as a broken toy.
Still it's frightening to see our leaders not taking stock of an impending catastrophe in Europe. The Barbarians aren't at the gates folks. They're coming up the walk to the front door. We'd better get ready for some really ugly scenes out of France and the collapse of Europe. When will Americans wake up, perhaps when Jaques Chirac calls Washington and screams for the Marines to come to Paris to protect his Presidential Palace from the lynch mob.