Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Pieter Dorsman catches M. DeVillepin in an "it depends on what is is" moment, or is this redefining "sexual relations?"
Anyway, in an interview with Christiane Amanpour:
I am not sure you can call them riots. It's very different from the situation you have known in 1992 in L.A. for example. You had at that time 54 people that died, and you had 2,000 people wounded. In France during the 2 weeks period of unrest, nobody died in France. So, I think you can't compare this social unrest with any kind of riots.
Those weren't riots, they were a wardrobe malfunction! No, this is not a Monty Python sketch.
I'll grant him one thing that has stuck out at me concerning the French riots -- they have been remarkable for the fact that no one was actually killed.
More (and serious) commentary here.
