Battles are very straightforward: Side A wins, Side B loses. But the French government is way beyond anything so clarifying. Today, a fearless Muslim advance has penetrated far deeper into Europe than Abd al-Rahman. They're in Brussels, where Belgian police officers are advised not to be seen drinking coffee in public during Ramadan, and in Malmo, where Swedish ambulance drivers will not go without police escort. It's way too late to rerun the Battle of Poitiers. In the no-go suburbs, even before these current riots, 9,000 police cars had been stoned by ''French youths'' since the beginning of the year; some three dozen cars are set alight even on a quiet night. ''There's a civil war under way in Clichy-sous-Bois at the moment,'' said Michel Thooris of the gendarmes' trade union Action Police CFTC. ''We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting.
Anyone who knows anything about conflict knows that the one key element for victory is will. The history books are littered with long shots armies who overcome the front-runners by inspired tactics, knowing the enemy better than they no themselves, or plainly being more willing to kill and die than the other. All of which requires a fundamental decision that one's enemy is, indeed, one's enemy, and that his victory is not acceptable. The Left, and Europe's ruling classes, have not made that decision. Until they do, look forward to more of the same. Much more of the same.
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