What to do? Oh, what to do? Don’t ask France’s President Jacques Chirac as his nation falls into civil anarchy, and the Paris riots threaten to spread to his European neighbors. Chirac knows only how to scold other nations’ leaders and instruct them in how to govern. The “Great Leader” and his comic sidekick, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, haven’t a clue what to do in their own land to save their people from calamity. This map from London’s “News-Telegraph” demonstrates the nightmare that is Chirac’s France - “Leaders fiddle as France burns.”

… a belated and much-criticised intervention by President Jacques Chirac, his first since the violence began, was followed by the worst night of rioting so far.

Mr Chirac, who had spoken of a French republic resolved to show itself “stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear”, made more conciliatory comments in a private meeting yesterday.

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia said the French president had admitted to him that “ghettoisation of youths of African or North African origin” was to be deplored, as was French society’s “incapacity to fully accept them.”

True to form, WaPo has all the answers - and they are shocking as in “fresh thinking is evident. Ironically, some of it comes from Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.” Say WHAT …? The Washington Post has the solution … if Jacques and Dominique are interested.