It may sound wrong, but just give me a few minutes of your time.

One of my favorite movie scenes comes from Night at the Museum. The little figures are deflating a tire of the getaway car. For them, it’s hurricane-force winds blowing them off of the spear one at a time. The scene then cuts to a wider view where we see and hear nothing. At the micro level, there is bedlam and challenge. At the macro level, nothing.

France is burning. There is no shortage of videos from Paris and other metropolitan areas showing looting, destruction, fire, and attacks on the police. It all looks horrific. And as usual, many of the perpetrators are Muslims, either direct immigrants or second/third generation descendants of those who came from France’s former African colonies. The destruction looks so massive, and the police seem so small and weak. President Macron puts out meaningless statements while being all but invisible during a national crisis. Is the game over? Are we getting close to game over? I think so, but not as most of us have imagined and predicted (including yours truly).

In the past, Islam has conquered other countries, oftentimes Christian, either through war or population growth. The war side of things mostly ended over a thousand years ago. The population side has, as one of its most recent victims, Lebanon. The Maronite Catholic country was a wonder. People called Beirut the Paris of the Middle East while a friend rued that today Paris is the Beirut of Europe. The Lebanese Civil War pretty much ended any discussion of power-sharing or an even Christian-Muslim balance. Today, a seriously weakened Hezbollah still calls the shots, and while Lebanese politicians like to criticize the Iranian terror group, they don’t have the power or gumption to do anything meaningful about weakening its grip on the country. Some want Israel to do their dirty work and get rid of the Shiite terrorists. Anyone looking........

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