Roger L. Simon on France

Today writer Roger L. Simon posted:The France of the Mind Goes Up in Smoke.

I grew up with the most romantic view of France - Sartre, Piaf, Jean Renoir, the Resistance. Then it was Truffaut, Godard, Serge Gainsbourg.
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Now the country itself seems defunct, its economic system a mess, its ability to assimilate immigrants (partly through its own fault and partly through the tribal religious primitivism of the immigrants themselves) practically non-existent. Its politicians seem a collection of pompous aristos and equally pompous leftists.
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And yet France is magnificent and we should all be sad, sadder still that the violence is metastasizing to Belgium and who knows where else?
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Millions of Americans are joining Simon in casting away romantic views of France and the French. That's a good thing. Americans becoming more realistic about France will in the long run benefit both France and America.

I'll say more about that soon.

Right now, I'm like most of you: Fingers crossed for France.