It amazes me that no one has made the connection between what's going on in France and what happened post-Katrina in New Orleans...we don't have to reach back to 1992!

A disenfranchised, largely minority population with high unemployment and few prospects for better....and the opportunity to strike back, however blindly....Detroit as well as LA did it in the past. Given that large numbers of the working and middle class in the US are sliding under the poverty line at a rapid rate, it may not be such a reach that it can happen here...and given the precarious state of the world economy, probably anyplace else where frustation reaches critical mass.