Political Architect

Villepin said he wanted to speed up a $35.5 billion urban redevelopment plan, triple the number of merit scholarships for talented students and offer jobs, training or internships to disadvantaged young people.

"We must offer them hope and a future," he said.

Wow. I haven't blogged for months, but I had to say something about this. France is burning at the hands of it's over five million muslim inhabitants. And the brilliant answer that the government has is....let's give them more freebees so they'll like us. The staggering ignorance and refusal to see the obvious is unbelievable.