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Originally posted by johnny:
I bet if this was happening in Algeria, it would have been over days ago.
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Hasn't Algeria been in a state of perpetual riot for the last decade or so?
Who would they get help from? And what could another country do that France couldn't if they put their mind to it?
The risk about sending the army in is that they just act as a focul point for the violence - tanks and APC's become a target for molotov cocktails for example. A tank getting stuff thrown at it from a mob simply looks impotent. If the army aren't actually allowed to use overwhelming lethal force (and it's unlikely they would be) then I'm not convinced it would contribute much to the current situation.
[ 11-08-2005, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]