These Things Take Time

I'm amazed that France is only now imposing curfews after 12 days of rioting. Or as La Shawn Barber reader Myopic Zeal puts it:

I have come across this shocking bit of evidence that while France burns, Chirac has spent the last eleven days reading the French version of the much maligned children’s story “My Pet Goat.”

Really. Chirac is making FEMA look speedy.